Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-26 | Page 6 | Parents Can Aid the Teacher

PARENTS CAN AID THE TEACHER A number of parents' meetings have been held in the city schools s nee the opening of school, by Supt Mills, where questions pertaining to school discipline and co-operation of parents have been discussed. SupL E G. Gow-ans, Gow-ans, of the State Industrial school, has assisted in this work occasionally. Supt Mills believes thai. If parents 1 are made acquainted with the woik I their children are doing, the children I will receive the benellt. He says that there are not many bad chlljren lu the schools and there arc none but ! what the teachers and principals can j handle If they secure the right kind ff cooperation from parents. There 1 are times when there are serious dif-flcultks dif-flcultks and that is when parents an dertake a defense of their children and in practically all of ihe cases tbe children are absolutely at fault. Some- times a child, who has told a little in nocent lie to a parent, can be made a confirmed liar by the parents believing believ-ing that story and urging it so much that In time the cild believed It, There is nothing di:ouraging in the lies of children until parents, by their defense of these lies, make it a serious seri-ous matter. j