Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1911 — Parents and Children’s Faults. [ARTICLE]

Parents and Children’s Faults.

Parents ought to with teachers In helping to develop the best in their children, and consequently to eliminate the worst. Instead of this view of the matter we (says Elia Wheeler Wilcox) find parents taking a s(pnd against the teacher who tries to talk of the faults of their children and discuss a remedy, and all the work which the teacher has hoped to do in character building falls to the ground under the lifted hammer of the unwise and belligerent parent, who insists that “my child” must be without faults, and that the teacher who see faults is an, enemy, not a friend. It is seldom, Indeed, that a man or a woman occupying the position of a teacher is prejudiced or has personal or selllsh motives for criticising a child.