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IV. Exercise and Recreation in School |
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This section is from the "Civics and Health" book, by William H. Allen. Also available from Amazon: Civics and Health.
1. How much time and at what periods is exercise provided for in the school schedule?
a. Indoors? b. Outdoors?
2. How much exercise indoors and outdoors is actually given?
3. Are the windows open during exercise?
4. Is exercise suited to each child by the school physician after physical examination, or are all children compelled to take the same exercise?
5. Whose business is it to see that rules regarding exercise are strictly enforced?
6. Do clouds of dust rise from the floor during exercise and play?
7. Are children deprived of exercise as a penalty?
8. Should hygiene talks be considered as exercise?
Home Workshops Need Fresh Air
V. The School Janitor and Cleaners
1. Do they understand the relation of cleanliness to vitality?
2. Is their aim to do the least possible amount of work, or to attain the highest possible standard of cleanliness?
3. Will the teacher's complaint of uncleanliness be heeded by trustees? If so, is the teacher not responsible for uncleanliness?
4. Have you ever tried to stimulate the pride of janitors and cleaners for social service?
a. Have you ever tried to show them how much work they save themselves by thorough cleansing? b. Have you ever shown them the danger, to their own health, of dust and dirt that may harbor infection and reduce their own vitality?
5. What effort is made to instruct janitors and cleaners by your school trustees or by your community?
6. Have you explained to pupils the important responsibility of janitors for the health of those in the tenements, office buildings, or schools?
a. Do you see in this an opportunity to emphasize indirectly the mother's responsibility for cleanliness of home?
School Workshops Also Need Fresh Air
VI. Requirements of Curriculum
1. How much home study is there?
a. How much is required? b. What steps are taken to prevent excessive home study? c. Are light and ventilation conditions at home considered when deciding upon amount of home study?
2. Is the child fitted to the curriculum, or is the curriculum fitted to the child?
a. Does failure or backwardness in studies lead to additional study hours or to regrading? b. Are there too many subjects? c. Are the recitation periods too long? d. Are the exercise periods too short and too few? e. Is there too much close-range work? f. Is it possible to give individual attention to individual needs so as to awaken individual interest?
3. Is follow-up work organized to enlist interest of parents, or, if necessary, of outside agencies in fitting a child to do that for which, if normal, he would be physically adapted?
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