Show Hear Those School Bells Ring BY FLORENCE BITTNER Summer is The calendar and the scientists who figure out what time it is by the sun and stars might tell us summer lasts until the middle of but they are Summer ends the day school Ask any SUMMER is the time for sleeping till all play every second you can duck watching the late late horror movie and then staying up a while because you can't Summer is snacks on vacation kick-the-can games in the dark Summer is the time for kids to unlearn all those hard-taught lessons of the school room about responsibility and discipline and regular schedules and BUT summer is are being washed frequently this week to get the new out in This is the week for haircuts so they won't-look fresh next This is the week to go to school to pay fees and register and to get in that last trip to the There is apprehension in starting What will the teacher be Will f be in any classes with my Will I be able to do the work without making myself look like a IN weeks it will be old and all the unknowns will have become familiar At home when the door slams behind the school-bound great vistas of free time Surely with all this free time I'll be able to work Then the telephone it's goodby free FOR the first few days of school are a testing Kids size up their teacher first as an antagonist to be tested to find out how far they can after the boundaries have been well students learn to move knowing what teacher stands for and what she docs not stand After the first few when students have given up on the idea of unrestrained and unending school becomes and where the action For most the hours in classes are sandwiched in between the walks to school and home with sports events and Studies are SUMMER is over and the school bells are Kids do a lot of complaining about school and there is that knot of worry about a but after the first bite of it doesn't taste all that That old nip is in the air The clouds come oftener and stay Lawns are beginning look and petunias are in full and self conscious Chrysanthemums are nipped back for the last Boys and girls in stores look at pencils and the baseball lies in a corner and the football is dusted SUMMER is gone and school bells are A great quiet settles over the neighborhood in the Where have the children |