Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1916 — Aims and Purposes of the Parent-Teacher Association. [ARTICLE]

Aims and Purposes of the Parent-Teacher Association.

The first meeting of the ParentTeacher Association win be held in the high school Thursday evening, March 9th. Attorney George A. Williams will be the chief speaker. A good social program will be provided. Some of the aims and purposes of the association are as follows: 1. To make the school “Our school” rather than the public school. 2. Establish closer relations between home and school. 3. To enable the parents and the teachers to co-operate intelligently in the education of the child. 4. To develop a wiser and more efficient parenthood. 6. To unite the home and school in the task of developing good citizens. 6. To rouse the city to a sense of its duty and responsibility _to the whole of child life.