The week after Elections, the week of most colleges' Big Football Game, the week of the National Automobile Show and the last week of woodcock shooting in New Englandlast weekwas American Education Week. For the benefit of 25,000 parent-teacher groups who would inspect their public schools locally during the week, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Langworthy of The National Congress of Parents & Teachers, wrote an instructive message:
"There are intelligent and offensive methods of school visiting. If you go to school to check on your child's progress ... do not embarrass him by talking...