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Volume 9 April 7, 1911. Number 14 
The Teacher and the Parent. 
It is an acknowledged fact that 
every department of our Public 
School System has been developing 
more rapidly than ever before in the 
history of education. The colleges 
are awakening to the perils of 
a dominance of the high» school 
courses. More.superintendents are 
trained men. The normal | school 
graduate constantly. meets the de- 
mands of our school system. The 
demand for vocational training -is 
being heard and the school’ courses 
have been adapted to the need. Of 
this forward movement the Beverly 
Day Industrial School is a suecessful 
illustration. The school as a social 
centre is constantly increasing and 
this will be more apparent as the 
years go by. But one missing link 
must be wrought, the link which 
binds the teacher and the parent. 
This relation could grow to be one of 
most cordial and mutual helpfulness. 
It does not take a vivid imagination 
to realize that there are many cases 
where any hope of help in training 
the child properly is not to be ex- 
pected. But there are many parents 
who eould and would assist the 
teacher in her problem of discipline 
and education of the young in her 
care. 
The Lawrence Sun suggests that 
the teacher and parent ‘‘discuss the 
child honestly and frankly. Let the 
parent tell the teacher the things in 
which the child is interested at home - 
and his peculiarities, if he has any. 
| -. G. BE. WILLMONTON ... 
| -Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
‘to have 
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Let the teacher tell the parent what 
the school is seeking to do to help 
the child and how the home ean 
cooperate with the school to accom- 
plish that end. From the teacher’s 
point of view the following are 
some of the things that the home. 
ean do to make the school more 
efficient; to see that the child is put 
to bed at the proper hour so that he 
will get a sufficient amount of sleep ; 
his bed-room well ven- 
tilated; to ¢élothe the child com- 
fortably; to see that the upper 
grammar grade pupils and the high 
school pupils observe the proper 
- hours of home study; to see that 
their baths are attended to regular- 
ly and properly; to provide proper 
nourishment; to prevent the use of 
coffee and tea, and to keep them off 
the street after nightfall.’’ 
The Parent-Teacher. association is 
~doing much’ to develop a cordial re- 
lation between the pupils and their 
teachers and their parents.. Apart 
from cliscipline and education there 
is a subtle power of personality 
which both teachers and parents un- 
consciously impart to the child. 
Principal Alfred L. Saben of the 
Story High School, Manchester, is 
clearly right when he says in his 
annual report: ‘‘A teacher must be. 
both conservative and progressive 
conservative in abiding by all those 
fundamental principles which have 
long been recognized for the form- 
- ing of men and women of character 
and stability, progressive in being 
abreast of all good movements for 
. the advancement of the fundamental 
principles of education, and keen to 
discern the difference between a new 
method of real value and a_ fad. 
The, famous ordinance of 1787 econ- 
tained these words: ‘Religion, mor- 
ality and knowledge being necessary 
to the perpetuity of a free govern- 
ment, schools and the means of edu- 
cation shall forever be encouraged.’ 
Our fathers placed religion first and 
knowledge last. The great teacher 
of all the ages was in himself the 
embodiment of .all those physical, 
mental and moral virtues which he 
strove to have mankind gain. The 
influence of the teacher of the youth 
is reckoned more by what he really 
is than by what he does. 
“The past: year’s work. of 
the Parent-Teacher Association has 
often been a help to the work of the 
Iligh School. The teachers are glad 
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to meet the parents here as well a 
at the school house.”’ . 
This opens up for the future ; 
larger spirit of cooperation whereb; 
the Parent and Teacher and the 
Pupil may work together for th 
good of all. The Manchester Par 
ent-Teacher Association will be. o 
increasing value as the days go by, 
Conservation. 
The National problem of caring 
for the forests and water ways hag 
awakened public interest to such g 
degree that it has become a fixed 
principle in our national polity. 
a lesser degree every community 
faces the same problem. Every 
shore town which is dependent upon 
a summer population must awaken 
to the fact that the conservation of 
its natural scenic beauties is its one 
invaluable asset. 7 
This sense of values has been vio- 
lated at West Gloucester. A large 
tract of wood has fallen before th 
axe and nothing remains but the 
ugly uncared ground to be left io 
be over run by brush. . 
Manchester at its last town mee 4 
ing very wisely appropriated a con- 
siderable sum of money to preserve 
a valuable stretch of wood land from 
a similar destruction. : 
This is a negative policy of caring 
for what already is but a positive 
and progressive policy should be in- 
augurated. The twn of Manchester, 
the city of Gloucester for Magnolia, 
and the City of Beverly for Beverly 
Farms should begin a definite cam- 
paign of education by example by 
planting with trees the thorough- 
fares and streets of the respective 
places. At Beverly Farms. young 
trees should be planted about the 
railroad station, up West and Vine 
and Oak streets. Each year the 
street planting could be continued as 
the part of a fixed policy until the 
whole street frontage had- been 
properly planted from the Pride’s 
Crossing depot to the Beverly Farms 
depot and from the Manchester line 
to the Wenham line. Such a poliey 
would be in line with the natural 
advantages of the shore. The shore 
will always be a summer place and 
as such its natural advantages 
should be conserved. If this had 
been done twenty years ago, the re- 
sults can easily be imagined. — It ean 
be done now. This work:-of the 
planting should be a part of the pub- 
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