APPENDIX III

RESOLUTIONS PROPOSED FOR TH? CONSIDSRATION OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF THE KANSAS CONGRESS OF PaRSNTS & TEACHERS
INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS - APRIL 1941

we, the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers, assembled in
annual convention in Independence, Kansas, April 16, 1941, hereby
record our position in regard to problems affecting education and
the proper care and development of youth in our state as follows:

(1) We re-affirm our belief in the program of the Public Schools
as a means of safeguarding our form of Government and of guarantecing
the perpetuity of our democratic institutions.

The training of youth is a vital factor in the provisions for
neticnal defense. Today's youth are tomorrow's citizens, and our
continued national welfare is dependent upon their ability to assume
the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship in our increas-
ingly complex society. Therefore, we urge that in cur intensive
program for nationel defense that preperation and training of our
youth be carefully and adequately provided.

(2) We commend the Governor and the 1941 Kansas Legislature for
enacting the state-wide Schccl Employee's Retirement Law, thereby
following the practice previously sdcpted in more than half of the
other states. It establishes a retirement policy for school employ-
ees, 2 provisicn that is considered "Gocd Business" in a majority of
leading business:. organizations for their employees. We believe it is
constructive legislation that will improve the profession of teaching =
and strengthen the schcol cffering for many of our children.

(3) We urge ecntinuetion of the effcrts te secure enactment of new.
laws thet will impreve the system of secondary education in the state,
including an enriches curriculum, more adequate financing, equitable |
tuition provisions, end suitable transportation. We alsc commend the =
Kansas Senate for enacting the rescluticn which provides for con-
tinued study of the ecdificaticn cf sehcol laws and, also, special
study of rursl educaticn in Kansas. We trust that this study will
lead tc modernization cf many schc<l laws to provide a more suitable

program cf education threughcut the state.

(4) We also believe that the cffice of state and county superin-
tendent shculd be removed from partisan pelitics and we recommend
thet every unit study needs fcr and methcds whereby the standard and
— of educaticnal leadership in these imprctant offices may be
insured.

(5) We commend the Naticnal Congress cf Parents and Teachers, the
Kansas State Safety Council, and the State Highway Commission for the
splendid work being done in the interest of safety and urge both
parents and teechers to ecoperate in these programs in every way
possible.

(6) We recognize the increasing need for Christian parenthood in
cur changing world tcday. Therefore, we urge that teaching apprcp-
riate tc this need be provided through the close eccperation cf the
home, schocl, and church. We believe that this teaching for Christian
parenthcod shculd incorporate, as a part cf its subject matter, mat-
erial related to the problem of the use of alcchol end nercotics.