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Show OLD-MOULD IDTHER'S IRK DONE BYSCHOOL Teachers Rear Child While Parent Gads and Dances, McCoy Says. SPRINGFIELD. Ills . March 30 Arguing In favor of proposed legislation legisla-tion which would increase school taxes, William T McCoy, chairman of a committee com-mittee representing twenty Chicago school teachers organizations Tuesday told the senate committee on revenue that the breakdown of tho modern home and the housewife's desire for broader life had doubled the burden of the schools and necessitated great increases in-creases In school expenditures "School coats have gone up 300 to 400 per cent In ten years." h said "One of the greatest causes Is the chango in attitude on the part of the house Wife of today. She, used to keep the little children home all day and leach the girls of from 10 to 16 cooking, cook-ing, housekeeping, sewing and all home-making duties. Now she wants the schools to take the littlest children In kindergartens so she ean be free to improc her own mind or amuse herself, and to have the schools teach her daughter all the cooking, sewing, housekeeping that she used to teach. "The dance craze has had much to do with this, although the natural and admirable ambition of woman to become be-come an intelligent voter has lend her out of the home. Schools are i-xpect-td to supplement the mother more and more and the teachers are willing and anxious to do this work, but they refuse to do it when the equipment and housing Is ho poor." |