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Adult Education
May Be the Answer
Concern and dissatisfact’on with their childrens’ schooling seems to point that perhaps parents need to learn more about present day schools in order to understand what is being done.
Parents do not recognize the modern school as a learning organ when they recall their own schooling. A father, the other day, was concerned because he said that his boy could not read, couldn’t write, and couldn't spell. “I don’t like it,” said the father. “How can the boy expect to get along in the world when he has no idea of the use of his own language?” This same opinion was expressed by another father in an answer he gave his son. The boy inquired of his father: “The teacher says that next year I will Jbe in high school and 1 am supposed to say what subjects I’m going to take. Must I take French, Spanish, or Latin?” asked the boy. The father’s reply was pointed: "I’d be happy if you learned something of your own language; it seems to me you need a thorough study of English before you try learning another man’s language.”
Examples are known (this story came from a community in Rappahannock) where a high school graduate was not able to read well enough to follow instructions on the cans of orchard spray. Of course, this is a rare example, but it is too obviously a show of poor learning to miss observation.
Thfe parents are not happy about the schools. They are ambitious for their children. They are not satisfied that schools be "just as good as they were;” a parent wants to know his child gets better schooling than he got, that marks progress.
Somewhere is the answer. Complete co-operation is needed between the school and the parent in order to improve the school When the parent can begin to understand the learning processes of the modern school, then perhaps they can be happier about the child’s education.
MISSIONARY MEETING
The Julia Hagood Graham Missionary Society met on Saturday night with Mrs, Lewis Moore and Mrs. Walter Krause as hostesses. Nine members were present. Mrs. Williams was in charge of the program with “Mexico” as the subject.
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