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I know that mediocre teachers arcn‘t tne only know that disinterested parents. a playâ€"itâ€"safe oc schoolboards with fat heads and narrow minds arc But if a bright. disciplined child with interest>d parents can‘t get any encouragement from senool, have the rest got? Tomorrow we‘re going io Pare school â€" it will be inferesting ‘o se There are several children in Joni‘s class who were promoted conditionally, on the understanding that they had to make good by Christmas or go back to Grade 4; within the irst month of the term, Joni was coming home and quoting the teacher as saving. "I don‘t think Brian and Shirley are going to make it" . . . Since then it‘s obvious that the teacher makes tun of these buckward pupils to the rest of the class, and these children are made to feel that everyone is against them. Holding a backward child up to ridicule is not the best way to help him: it doesn‘t sting a child of this age into doing better, which is probably the erroneous intenâ€" tion. If I had a child being treated like this. I certairly wouldn‘t let the teacher get away with it. but many uneducated parents are overawed by even the most incodequate teacher and they haven‘t the guts or the gumption to protect their child from a poor teacher. school. As a result of the books not being checked regularly, errors are perpetuated and copied by other children. I mentioned this to the headmaster when 1 saw him the seme evening; his answer was that the teachers had too many children in class to check all the books every week. With great restraint I forbore from pointing out that in England teachers are expected to take schoolwork home with them most nights and on weekends. When Joni started in this class in September, we wrote a letter to the teacher, giving details of the child‘s home environment, oi our interest in education and our desire to help with any probiem:. and emphasising that despite her age, Joni was a brisht child who needed more stimulation than the curriculum could provide We didn‘t get a reply to this. but hoped it was aniv because the teachâ€" er was too busy. not that she really didn‘t care. Now that we‘ve met her, we understand. General conversstion revealed that the teacher was of limited inteiligence and intertsts and not really fond of children. However, Joni is lucky in that she has pavents who can and do take up the slack in her education; what about the other chilâ€" dren who need help to even scrape through the acadvmic year and who receive no help from school or home? Another feature of this school â€" and of others. 1 suspect â€" is that every child‘s notebooks in every class containcd numerous spelling and copying errors. I know, because I checked different classrooms, and it was the same when Jade and Jeremy were in more than Joni, she couldn‘t remember all their needs and it was up to Joni, or the individual child, to ask her tor homework evers night if she wanted ‘t.. This is the a‘titude often met in a iypica‘ product of Teachers‘ College, who is gevoted oniv to her satars and who leaves school by 345 every doy. To leachers of this calibre, teaching is a lucrative job with good holidavs â€" not a stirring, heartâ€"breaking. jovous vocation. â€" Presumably it we hadn‘t gone to see the teacher, Jon: would still be having trouble with arithmetic next June and no one wou‘lid have done anything about it. Considering all the disadvantages peculiar to the district (low tax assessment area, the difficulty of getting good teachers to come so far, etc.) the lake school is a lot better than it might be; it has adequate accommodation for the 300 children it contains and an intelligent principal who knows each child individually. The teachers are a mixed bag. One or two are good, but the rest range from merely competent to mediocre. This year it‘s Joni‘s turn to have a poor teacher. She‘s a bright little girl with no real probâ€" lems, but this doesn‘t seem to be an advantage in this part of the school system â€" it means that all her teachers have more or less ignored her thankfully in order to concentrate on children who needed help. The idea that here is a bright child who van be furâ€" ther helped and encouraged doesn‘t seem to have oveuried to au of them, though presumably if we were living in a more enlightâ€" ened area, such as Etobicoke. she would be put into an enrichment Joni‘s class has 32 children in it, raaging in agse from Joni up to some delayed 12 and 13 yvear olds (who should of course be in a special class, but the school can‘t afford it!. When 1 had my interview with the teacher â€" a young married woman â€" on Parents‘ Night, she said that Joni was doing well. but was having some slight difficult with arithmetic tor the first time; I asked why in that case she hadn‘t been giving ner homcwork. The aiâ€" swer was that she had many childron in class who needed help course This is the time of year when I go around grinding my teeth and taking bites out of the furniture â€" Parents‘ Night has just been held at our local grade school We only have one child at this school now â€" 8 year old Joni, who is in Grade 5 â€" but she is the third Seager who has spent some time receiving the dubious benefits of the Ontario educational system, so my howls of anguish are based on experience. HIGHEST TRADEâ€"IN ALLOWANCE oN YOUR OLD FURS BETWEEN 4th and 5th $T., NEW torowto LAST 2 DAYS _ 56th ANNIVERSARY ADVERTISER â€" Thursday, Nov: 28, 1963 â€" Poge 8 FURS SALE SAVE $125. to $550. 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