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Show Good Old Golden Rule Days Probably everybody involved students, teachers and parents will get a kick out of reversing the tables today as National Education week is given official observance at North Sanpete high school. Today is a day the young scholars have long looked forward to, according to Barbara Josie, a capable North Sanpete San-pete coed who has faihfully reported news from the high school each week in the Pyramid. For this is the day that Barbara and her fellow students stay home from school while mother and dad hurry off to the classroom to try to learn what their sprouts are being taught and why. The full schedule outlined for the parents includes six classes shortened to half an hour each in the morning, a hot lunch in the Home Economics building at noon, followed fol-lowed by a musical and speech program and concluding with a discussion between teachers and parents of school problems. The affair strikes us as a pretty sound expression of the so-called American way of life; the parents attempting to find out how they may complement in the home the instruction in-struction received by their children at school, and the teachers learning from the parents what hopes the latter hold out for their off-spring. And certainly nothing could be more democratic at least as far as the kids are concerned than the scenes which probably took place in many Mt.. Pleasant homes this morning as mothers and fathers took their leave for the big red school house. "Better shine those shoes before you leave," says a 16-year-old to his father in a voice several tones below normal. "And here's a nice big red apple for you to take to the teacher." "Do you have your hanky, mother?" asks a youngster who is already completely at home in the role of lady of the house. Whatever instructions the parents were given they have our best wishes and the hope that they'll all return home this afternoon full of knowledge and carrying straight "A" report cards. |