Dear Pam:
     Many Glenridge teachers give the kids a pep talk about going to school games and then don't go to the games themselves.
                               How About It

Dear How About It:
     Some of our Glenridge teachers have families to care for, houses to clean, and meals to fix. When the school day is finished they are just

Dear Pam:
     How can one cope with a few kids who are always cutting up in math. class? They don't care about getting the work and they make sure the rest of us can't get it either.
                                   Distracted
Dear Distracted:
     Back the teacher up in disciplinary measures, do your work and don't allow yourself to be diverted. Concentration under these circumstances may not be easy but it is not impossible.
               
Dear Pam:
      What do you do when girls are always chasing you around and bothering you?
                                   Always Runnin'
Dear Always Runnin'
     Stop runnin' and let one catch you. That should cool them off in a hurry.
               

Music Makes Scientists

     Formula for producing a better scientist: Teach him to make music! That is the recommendation of a leading educator, Dr. Herbert H. Sommers, assistant superintendent of Chicago's public schools.
     Learning to play a musical instrument instills at least five qualities in the youngster, Dr. Sommers says. These are:
     1. Concentration: You can't take your mind off the notes and what others are playing.
     2. Mental discipline. You have to hew to the line of the music, the direct or, the timing of the group. There is no such thing as "almost right" in music.
      3. Mathematical precision. Music is a form of mathematics in notation, timing, arrangement. The person who gets a deep understanding of music has improved his mathematical judgment.
      4. Perseverance. In an age when more and more things are easy, music requires application and practice. There is no way of "getting by". It is a challenge that requires the student to conquer it.
      5. Teamwork and cooperation. As a member of musical organization a youngster learns that he must fit in, subordinating the urge to show off yet holding up his own assignment.
      "The carryover of music training into other studies is shown", says Sommers, "by a recent survey of 200 colleges in which officials of 196 declared that musically trained students were far superior to others. The tie-in is also dramatically demonstrated by another national survey that showed that 90 percent of all elementary school honor students play some kind of musical instrument."
      Believing that "any technically-minded man needs music, Dr. Sommers foresees future scientific benefit in a recent American Music Conference report that 8,000,000 school-age children now play instruments or study music more than triple the number of students studying in 1947.
      "Music develops creatively, and creativity is necessary in science because science is a living subject - imagination and abstract thinking plus science add up to new discoveries."