1872-1873 School Committee Report

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25 5. Each session shall close punctually at the time designated. Scholars may be detained for sufficient reasons after the close of the session, but not longer than fifteen minutes after the close of the morning session. ' 6. No pupil shall be dismissed from school before the, close of the daily sessions, except in case of sickness, or pressing REGULATIONS OF THE. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. emergency. (It is to be understood that in the mixed schools, pupils of the primary grade shall have the same. length of sessions as the Primary Schools.), Teachers shall keep a record of all cases of dismission from 1. ALL the teachers in the Public Schools are required to the daily sessions, with the causes in each case. make themselves familiar with these regulations, and see that T. Every school-room shall be opened, and teachers be pres- they are carefully observed in their respective grades. ent, before the beginning of each session,—at least ten min- 2. The school year shall consist of forty weeks; divided into utes in the forenoon, and five minutes in the afternoon. two terms of twenty weeks each, as nearly as circumstances will allow. The first term shall begin on the•first Monday of September, and shall continue. until the last Friday in January, with a recess during the week of the Annual Thanksgiving. PRIMARY. The second term shall begin one week from the Monday fol- lowing the last Friday in January, and shall continue until the 1. Children five years of age shall be admitted to the schools last Friday in June, with a recess during the week of the An- v of this grade, and to the lowest classes of the mixed schools. nual Fast. An alphabet class will be formed in. September of each year, 3, There shall be no sessions of the schools on Saturdays, and it is recommended that children enter this grade only at and the'following holidays: Christmas, Washington's Birth- that time, unless they are sufficiently advanced to enter an ex- day, Nineteenth of April, and Memorial Day. isting class. Teachers may leave their schools one day in each term, for 2. There shall be three classes in this grade; and the re5. the purpose of visiting other schools, and may also attend the ular promotions from class to class, and from this grade to the meetings of the State and County Teachers' Associations; it Intermediate, shall take place in September of each year. In beiga distinctly understood that the time taken is for the a y pur- special cases, promotions may be .made, at other trues. pose named, and notice of any intended absence being first 3. No child shall be admitted to this grade unless lie brings a given to the committee., certificate of vaccination. Teachers must seasonably inform the committee when they 4. The daily sessions shall begin at the same hour with the are required to be absent from their schools on account of sick- other grades, and continue two and one half hours in the fore- ness or otherwise, and no substitute shall be employed in any noon, and two hours in the afternoon. school for more than one day at a time, without the approba- 5. There shall be two recesses in the forenoon, and one in tion of the committee, and not even for one day if it is possible the afternoon, of ten minutes each; during which every scholar to inform the committee in season. ;rust leave the room, and the windows be thrown open for i 4. No scholar shall be deprived of recess.of the prescribed ventilation. The windows should not remain open when the length; but for .purposes of discipline a scholar may take his scholars are quiet in the school-room, if there be any possibility r recess alone. of draft. g