Parents ought to more carefully supervise their children outside of school hours.(Upper Peninsula (Mich.) (1914), 5.) Home and school should cooperate to stop or supervise "social" affairs.-(Springfield, p. 42.) Secret societies.-These should be prohibited, according to Rochester report (1913), 117; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) (1914), 37; East Orange, 64. Principals and teachers to be discharged for failure to report existence of secret societies (New York School Report (1913), 217.) We also beg leave to intimate to parents that social festivities not infrequently prove to be disintegrating to scholastic purposes and methods.-(Cleveland, 22.) Superintend all societies. Students should be required to give up membership in secret societies.-(East Orange, 64.) Religious training.-Through organizations of parents it may be possible to secure greater stimulus for the religious training of adolescent children, especially in the danger period. The need of such training has received scant attention, save in the rural surveys. (Rural Illinois, 15; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) (1914), 4; Syracuse, 36.) Segregation of the sexes. -What are its advantages? What its disadvantages? Segregation may at times be needed.-(Baltimore, 90.) In high schools of commerce, segregation raises attendance of boys.-(New York, Vol. II, 35.) Segregation not due to prejudice against coeducation, but to give each pupil that which he needs most.-(Gary, 14.) Play and recreation.-A right use of the instinct for play, generally strong in adolescence, may prove a most powerful means of wholesome education and a method for prevention of vicious tendencies. The surveys have given ample attention to this topic.-(See Greenwich, 9; Portland, 271, 221; 2d Boise, 12; Cleveland, 55; Atlanta, 25, 34, 64; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) (1914), 5; "Recreation," Springfield, entire; Maryland Industrial Commission, 15; Pittsburgh, Gist 306; Ohio, 16; Rural Illinois, 8-9-10; Rural Pennsylvania, 15 and 19.) Systematic attention to way that pupils spend evenings and vacations is necessary for good products in character.-(Rural Illinois, 9; Gary, 16, 17; Cleveland, 53.) Knowledge of child's life work also a strong means of prevention.— (Nutley, 17.) THE BALANCE SHEET. Among the chief items (estimated for 1914) in the public ledger under the caption "High-School Education," is this: "Debit-For the training of 1,250,000 children in 12,000 buildings by 60,000 teachers, $60,000,000.” The items of the credit column are incomplete and "Expectations" are entered as security. But it must be noted that, at the present rate of increase, in six or seven years the above figures will be doubled. 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