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Show ELIMINATION BY CO-OPERATION "Stomo Ochi, late again! If you don't get here on time hereafter, you'll have to drop this class I won't tolerate it any longer!" "But, M , I caught the 8:20 bus, and it didn't start for school till 8:30.'' "That doesn't matter. Get up a little earlier and catch an earlier "bus." mithcut further argument, Stomo took his seat. To acqu¬iesce to the teacher's demand was the best policy. "Hereafter three points will be deducted from your grade for each tardy, Stomo. The ruling will apply to the rest of the class. Eight tardies will lower your grade consider¬ably, you know." The above incident, undoubt¬edly, occurs daily in many other classes. Tardiness is a problem that must be overcome if the remaining two terms are to be pleasant to both the teacher and pupil . Many teachers are endeavor¬ing to curb tardiness by deducting from the term grade a certain number of points for each tardiness. This is unjust and unfair. Grades arc used to show the amount and the quality of work a student produces. It is an indication that he is studying. To lower his academic standing because he is tardy is a gross injustice. That the student may desire to go to college is probable. And, as Vice-principal GIen G. Eye stated in a discussion of the tardy problem, any lowering of the students academic rating may affect him greatly. Teachers, consider the case'. The future welfare of many students, fragile peioes that they are, are in the safety of your hands. Destroy not the hopes and desires of a student, instead, aid him, guide him, encourage him! The day for wooden pedogogues is past! Be human! Have patience! Every student cannot possibly be a perfect specimen of human punctuality Students, we, too, must consid¬er this case. A teacher is paid to instruct us, to aid us in our preparation for entering life. He is no more than human, and because he is no more, he is apt to become intolerant, to forget that he, too, once lived his youth. But who would not become irritated by daily disturbances of the tardy. There are always two sides to a debatable question, always a "for" and an "against". Let us be just, and view the problem as one of theirs and of ours. We are in school to learn. What better thing can we learn than willing, voluntary co-operation, friendliness, and punctuality? Need we incur the antagonism of those who would befriend us? This case is a modified form of the proposition: "United stand; divided we fall." Let's unite is whole-hearted co-operation with the teacher to eliminate this problem of tardiness! The Editor Very few of us can be trusted with an education. Louise Imogene Guiney |
