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Show Parents Return to Gasses During P.T.A. Meeting On Wednesday evening, November 17, the tables were turned at South High. This eventful evening was "Back To School" night, when the students' mothers and fathers were invited to become members of South's student body. The students' mothers and fathers came to school and occupied the students' desks and puzzled over the lessons prepared for them, while the students remained re-mained at home and, if necessary, walked the floor with the baby, and put Junior to bed, or maybe read the younger ones some bedtime bed-time stories. This new experience proved interesting for both parents par-ents and students. A post card was sent to the parents, on which each student wrote his daily program, for his parents to follow, and perhaps had to draw a diagram so that these new "freshmen" wouldn't lose their way around the building, or enter the wrong classes. It wouldn't do for mom or dad to be marked down for sluffing. The evening commenced at 8:00 p. m. when the "students" met in the auditorium for an assembly conducted by Miss Winifred Dyer, Mr. Woolf, and Mrs. Stephen Gill-more, Gill-more, P T A president. Each parent was then instructed instruct-ed to go to the advisory period, ) and from there, to each of the classes that are daily attended by his son or daughter. This enabled en-abled the parents to become, acquainted ac-quainted with the teachers, and with the activities that are carried car-ried on in the school. Imagine mother or dad trying to solve problems in geometry, or to give a talk in Spanish, or to take dictation, or to type. They also discussed the problems prob-lems of their adolescent boys and girls, and the teachers answered queries the parents put to them. Since the report cards were circulated cir-culated that day, students' marks were probably a popular topic of discussion. |