Issue Number:15

Date: 11/11/1933

p. 01, c. 03


The Parent-Teachers League at Typitown


In Typitown, they have an accredited high school and an excellent grade school. The staff is composed of public spirited men and women with a sincere desire for racial advancement. At the various institutions of higher education, the Typitown students are getting their share because of studiousness and general cooperation. The most pleasant relationship exists between teacher and student at the Typitown schools, and the town is quite proud of its educational staff, its school board and its pupils.

The faculty is efficient, the students are certainly conscientious and the citizens quite appreciative. It seems like this is all that is necessary for the development and growth of the child, but Typitown educational leaders and parents feel different, not being a group of people easily contented, and are ever looking for more advanced steps to further their program of civic betterment. So, they were inspired by this idea. While it is true that conditions and results are satisfactory some improvements are possible, so being familiar with the numerous benefits derived from organization of previous experiences, the staff and parents decide to organize, to join hands for the benefit of the child, so they do. Now, every Friday night in Typitown, the parents and instructors meet in the school auditorium for an honest to goodness "get together." This brings the parent in closer contact with the teacher, the teacher in turn in closer contact with the child, and all three factors are made familiar with the problems. Such meetings familiarize the parent with school activity, the teacher with home cooperation and the child with parent-teacher understanding. Each student of Typitown school is a model pupil because he has no choice.