The role of cafeterias in the school program

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The role of cafeterias in the school program
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THE ROLE OF CAFETERIAS IN THE SCHOOL PROGRAM HERMINIA M. ANCHETA This article attempts definitely of social living. ~rf:;s~~t ~~~ov~~l ~~1~:::. c~~ed 4. To provide adequate, clean~ . pleasant and attractive surround~~~~:!iit~~s. th;t ~=l:es51~~Je r~)~ mgs in lunchrooms. which cafeterias have in imple~ 5. The lunchroom is an integral menting the teaching of health as part of the total education prowell as the principles of democ- gram for which the physicaf ratic living. school is responsible, in cooperal t d f · 1 d tion of the entire school persontion0 i~Yth~ usfat:s ~feN:w ey~~t nel, especially the home economics Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Wis- department, the building health consin, Colorado and California, I committee, physical education de~b~e~ee s~~~~f;uf~i;yb;~h v;h~t h~~~ ~ft1~\~i:tt·f~;~~~ces~ecfea:ttm~~~n~~t t~ca~hisd ~~~n~~~i~~~mt ~~~dr:~~ ~~~~:~~~ s~~ff.nization with the chance to visit also the universi- Such activities as waiting forties of Yale, Columbia, New York, one's turn at the lunchcounter or Howard, Wisconsin, Illinois, Chi- lunchtables; training in serving cago, Michigan, Berkely, Stan- others at the table; and observing ford, Los Angeles and Southern the correct manners while eating California. During these visits, at tables are means of teaching my attention was called by one etiquette, courtesy, and respect f~t:~n:~~~ola~~o~~:~i:c~~:~~~~;;t for others. cafeteria or lunchroom. Whenever children learn new The Minneapolis secondary i~~?tyhat~it~r~~ti~:v~h~~h~i~hp~~= ~h:Jsp~n'~s~ph~ti~~a~~~lal~n~h= tisfaction, they are learning to do rooms. by doing. The cafeteria serves in giving pupils and students exper1. To make available to all iences in democratic living for it students lunches which have a is the best factor in bringing to~:~;;.~~e co~~ilion~r=~dr~~fe:Cdd~~ ~:~~~~s a~~~~~::~f{;·leacfe~~~ls, the students at a low price as possible. For health reasons, the food sold in a cafeteria is of nutritive ha~iJ~n ~h:e~~~t o~e~~r st~d:!~ · ;f~~ic a~~n~~ti~~;.arT~e unf!,C:d h1~ by teaching intelligent discrimin- nutritive because it is presumed ation in food selection. that the menus are prepared un3. To teach etiquette, courtesy, der the direction of nutritionists and respect for others as a means or home economics teachers. ,. 56 THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATOR Having thus presented the philosophy and educational values of cafeterias, the next step is to present a bit of history. The first cafeteria service in the secondary schools in the Philippines is supposed to have origmated in a make-shift kitchen of the Arenano High School. A brief survey made of cafeterias in the city reveals that very few if not only two colleges have started running cafeterias. The PWU is one of them. It maintains a cafeteria for the elementary school and a canteen for the college students. Actually, the Philippine Normal College has the distinction of maintaining a cafeteria on a ten and five cents philosophy. A lunch is as low as fifty centavos of high prices. A lunch order of fifty centavos offers the customers two courses, a cup of steaming soup good for a hungry stomach, vegetables, a substantial ration of rice and a dessert of fruit or sweets. Lunches can be ordered also a la carte. The menus are genuinely Filipino. "Are you able to make any profit with the price, the lowest I know of is seventy centavos'!" I asked Mrs. Negado who is in charge of the PNC Cafeteria. "Yes, we do make. We do not ~~~v!~fe:C~c:ncr~J~t~n~~!/~~ f~: students, the members of the faculty and their guests," she answered smilingly. tion and recognition. Students and teachers from the neighborhood come now and then to eat. With more expansion, equipment facilities and school support, the PNC cafeteria is bound to hold her own among the cafeterias I visited in the United States. Dr. Willis Porter, a Fulbright Professor and formerly connected with the New York State College will bear me out in the foregoing statement when he said, "This cafeteria is very good. It only needs screens for its windows." For informational purposes, some of the activities in which students in the PNC take part will follow shortly. One group takes care of marketing and counter. Another is in charge of kit~~=n c~~~j~~~~iojn~b~cStitlti~~~th~~ looks after the vegetables, dishes, salads and miscellaneous. The last group takes care of the preparation of rice, desserts, and soup. One socializing activity undertaken is the serving at a guest table where students and a guest, who usually is a member of the faculty, dine together. This is actual life within the four walls of a school. In conclusion, this article therefore, wishes to sound a call for the organization and maintenance of cafeterias in schools under the management of the Home Economics Department and run by the pupils or students. According to modern trends in the teaching of health and social living, they are This cafeteria is gaining atten- in order. FLASH! ------<()~ Construction of the P P S T A Building will soon be started! (;orrespondences Re: Payment of Teachers' Salaries ~== :o ~ ~=: ; ~oo~: ~:::Cis~~s=::~ ~'5c=:cc=c:c~ PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 1137-A Pi y Marga\1, Sampaloc Manila September 9, 1950 Dear Superintendent You will find a copy of a Memorandum Circular of the Secretary of Finance, the Honorable Pio Pedrosa. The circular is an order to Provincial Treasurers to exhaust all means to pay the salaries of teachers as they fall due. We are inviting your attention to this strong action of the Secretary of Finance, which is the result of repeated representations to his department. Of course, we are grateful for this commendable stand of Secretary Pedrosa. We shall highly appreciate being" favored by you and by your teachers and employees with information as to whether there is improvement or not on the prompt payment of salaries ns a result of Secretary Pedrosa's vigorous order. We shall continue to relay any information, favorable or unfavorable, on the matter until prompt salary payments have become "a matter of course." Assuring you always of our service to help promote the welfare o! ed!JC&tional workers, we are, Very sincerely. (Sgd.) GERARDO FLORES Acting Executive Secretary-Treasurer ----oOo--Rcpublic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Manila September G, 1950 MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR TO: All Provincial Treasures SUBJECT: Payment of natio1w.l obligations, partic«larly of teachers' salarieB, Delay inNumerous and frequent complaints are being received in this Department over the delay in the payment of national obligations, especially teachers' salaries. While the main cause is generally insufficiency of national funds, there are eases where such delays are merely due to unwillingness of provincial treasurers to effect payment until after Bank credit advices that national fund allotments are already placed to their credit and received even if the corresponding provinces have adequate cash collections or bank balances that can be used for said obligationa and teachers' ularies without hampering the ordinary disbursements for provincial or city e.zpenditures. Treasurers nlso fail at times to anticipate probable needs fo:r funds so that they may be obtained beforehand either from Manila or some 51 •• THE PHlLIPPJNE EDUCATOR municipalities in their province where cash in excess f;)f immediate disbursements. may e:xist. It need not be said here, :Cor it is already known to all, that the nonpayment o! teachers' salaries on time has often placed the Government in difficult and embarrassing sit uations. It Cci·tainly has not helped increase the faith and reliance of our people and even of public servants in their own government. On the part of small salaried employees of the National Government in t he provinces, particularly the teachers, these delays naturally bring untold anno~·ance, embarrassments, and suffering. It is therefore, hereby requested that every effort be exet1ed hereafter to pay teachers' salaries and other sulary obligations of the National Government as they fall due. lf after exhausting all means locally available there yet be need of action on the part of national offices, provincial treasurers are hereby given blanket per· tnission to come to Manila, by the fastest means of transportation available, once a month and sufficiently in anticipation of the due date of these salary obligations accruing under their jurisdiction b1·inging with them their accounts for liquidation. ' Vays and means locnlly nvailable, should, however, be first explored and exhaustily ut ilized before p1·oceeding to Manila for the purpose of obt:1ining funds or cash. This Department will be very grateful for every little added solicitude that Treas· u rer can show to other officials and employees of the National Government stu· tioned within their jurisdiction by exhausting all means at their disposal to have t heir pay given as it falls due. (Sgd.) PIO PEDROSA Secretary --oOoTEACHERS' PAY GIVEN PRIORITY Digest of an article in tile Sepl. 2, 1950, morni11g edition of the Philippines Herald. " In three separate acts Secretary Pio l)edrosa yesterday emphasized the government solicitude for the public school tcacllers and underscored the fact that this department took the view that the payment of teachers' salaries Wll.s a preferred priority over all other expenses of the department of education." MEMORANDUM FOR: --oOo-Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Bureau of Public Schools DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOLS Manila Secretary Pio Pedrosa , August 23,1950 Will appreciate anything you can do for the plight of the teachers in Tangub, THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATOR Occidental Misamis. (Sgd.) ANTONIO A. MACEDA President Philippine Public School Teachers Association Hon. Pio Pedrosa ~retary of Finance Man i I a Encl.: A copy of thtl telegram of Tangub Local Chapter 'TRUE COPY /mfl TELEGRA!\1 RECEIVED BUREAU OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS 204DVK33MBS 310Pl\1 20 PAID TANGUB MISSOCC AUG 22 50 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TREASURER PPSTA MANILA "TANGUB DISTRICT TEACHERS NOT PAID APRIL MAY JUNE JULY STARVI NG PLEASE HELP. TAl\'GUB LOCAL CHAPTER -434P:\I CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: (SGD) ANTONIO A. MACEDA --------<>Oo-Republic of the Philippine! DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Manila August 23, 1950 Mr. Antonio A. lfaceda, President Philippine Public School Teachers Association Division of City Schools City Hall, Manila Sir; With reference to your Memorandum of even date Cor Secretary Pedrosa, regarding the payment of salaries of public school teachers in Tangub, Misamis Occi. dental, I wish to inform you that the Provincial Treasurer of Misamis Occidental is at present in Manila to get funds for payment of teachers' salaries in his prov· inee. He is returning to his station promptly after he will have obtained the needed funds. Respectfully, (Sgd.) SIXTO B. ORTIZ Acting Undersecretary of Finance TRUE COPY /mf!