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EDUCATION AND RECREATION
During the course of the conferences concerning "on-base" housing, it was indicated that Lincoln might be eligible for Federal Aid under Public Law 874 because of federally connected children already in our schools. A survey on November 1, 1956, confirmed that for the first time Lincoln is eligible. Application has been made for aid which is expected to be approximately $6500.
On July 1, the new personnel and salary policy, which had been developed by the co-operative efforts of the staff and the School Committee, went into effect. Under the salary provisions of the policy, which is built around the principle of competence in perform- ing the teaching job as the basis for salary determination, the average salary of teaching personnel during the school year 1956-57 is $4137. (Estimates published by the Massachusetts Teachers Association indicate a state wide average salary of $4400). The range of teaching salaries in Lincoln is presently from $3350 to $5600.
In accordance with the policy concerning full year employment described in the previous annual report, ten teachers worked for a period of six weeks after the closing of school. This group worked on a project to strengthen and broaden the reading program. Their
summer activities resulted in a successful means of pooling the resources of all the teachers. Specific lesson exercises, techniques, and materials have been shared by individual staff members, and each individual has been thus able to integrate his efforts with those of the staff as a whole. Budgetary provisions have been made for ex- panding this group to seventeen during 1957.
In June, the Lincoln and Sudbury eighth grades completed their work at Smith School. Since all these pupils were in one school and were to enter the Regional High School, the Lincoln staff was able to give more assistance in planning the Freshman program of study and in orientation to High School than had been possible in previous years. The eighth grade guidance teachers worked closely with the High School Guidance Director as well as with pupils and parents in this endeavor. Since September these teachers and the Guidance Director have been engaged in a program of short and long term educational planning. A revision in the curriculum has been made placing the study of Geography and World History in separate years in order to insure better instruction in both subjects. Plans are also being made in co-operation with the High School district for the teaching of Algebra I in grade eight to some of our more advanced pupils, which will allow these pupils wider opportunities in subject choices during their secondary school years.
In September a program of "on-the-job" teacher training was instituted involving both our regularly employed but inexperienced
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teachers and, in cooperation with Wheelock College, a group of under- graduate teachers. In this latter group have been four Juniors and one Senior who have come to Lincoln several days a week to participate in our school program. Besides helping to prepare young people for teaching careers our own school has benefited from the concrete help and stimulation that the young ladies have given. Also, by utilizing the resources of our experienced teachers it has been possible to arrange the opportunity for inter-class observations and numerous con- ferences between them and the inexperienced teachers who are regularly employed.
During the year, the testing program has undergone a periodic and careful evaluation accompanied by a critical analysis of results that have been recorded in the last six years of full scale testing. The whole program includes a reading readiness test in kindergarten, an individual test (Binet) of I. Q. at the end of grade 1, two group tests of I. Q. at intervals during the elementary school years, a complete battery of achievement tests at the end of each year, and a supplementary test of basic study skills at the upper grade level. Considerably more diagnostic testing is being done in the Fall than has been done in the past and it is expected that concentration on weaknesses uncovered in this way will result in better performance during the year and be reflected in the results of the annual achieve- ment test.
The analysis of six years of full scale achievement testing with the same battery of test (California) reveals several pertinent facts. Ten percent more pupils show achievement in the top tenth of their age group in the country and nine percent fewer students are now doing work below an acceptable standard at their grade level as compared to 1951. The percent of our pupils at various achievement levels in the two years is also indicative of improved instruction.
Lincoln Pupils
in 1951
in 1956
below national average
76 or 22%
54 or 13%
above national average
252 or 78%
389 or 87%
in top fourth in country
166 or 52% 291 or 65%
in top tenth in country
66 or 20%
131 or 30%
While the national average achievement of all pupils is at the 50th percentile, according to the abilities of Lincoln pupils, it would be expected that the average achievement in Lincoln would be at the 70th percentile nationally, whereas actual average achievement was at the 76th percentile and half of our pupils achieved higher scores than 83% of all children in the country at their age level.
Respectfully submitted:
Douglass B. Roberts Superintendent of Schools
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SCHOOL NURSE'S REPORT
To the School Committee:
A report of school nursing for the year ending December 31, 1956, is hereby submitted.
Schools have been visited daily. There have been 454 office calls for treatment or advice; 53 pupils were taken home; 362 home calls to check on absentees.
Pupils have been weighed and measured twice and scalps examined.
Children entering Kindergarten, and others new to the first grade, were requested to have a physical examination. Examinations were done by Dr. John A. V. Davies at the Well Child Conference or their family physician. All but two had their physical, and with these two religious objection was the reason. Among the Kindergarten group 21 were vaccinated, 19 received Triple Antigen, and 24 a "Booster".
Audiometer tests were given with four showing defective hearing in one or both ears; all are under observation by their family physician or Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Vision testing showed five pupils with defective sight; all are now wearing glasses.
Five pupils were taken to Middlesex Sanatorium for Chest X-Rays; 18 school personnel had X-Rays, all negative.
Parents responded 92% to the school request for Family Physician examination of their child, if in 3rd or 6th grade.
I assisted Dr. Farrell with oral examination of each child and with dental clinic two half days a week. Dr. Farrell gave three oral talks to pupils in grades 1-3-5.
Many interviews were held between teacher and nurse with a better understanding of the pupil resulting.
I attended health Institutes held in Boston, Waltham, Arlington and Cambridge, all very helpful to school nursing.
There were 17 cases measles; 11 cases of chicken pox; 9 cases of mumps.
Respectfully submitted,
Marian N. Ober, R. N., School Nurse
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SCHOOL CENSUS
SCHOOL CENSUS
A. Distribution of Minors by Age and Sex October 1, 1955
5 years or over and under 7
7 years or over and under 16
1. Boys
316
2. Girls
69
305
Totals
159
621
B. Distribution
1. In public day school
152
527
2. In private school
6
93
3. Not enrolled in schools
1
0
4. Special-Elementary
0
1
Totals
159
621
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AGE _ GRADE TABLE October 1, 1956 Ages by Sex
Grade
BGBGBG BG
BGBG
B G
B G
B G
B G
B G
Totals
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Kdg.
12 15
35 30 1
93
I
13 5 32 23 1
74
II
6 7 34 22 1
70
126
III
11 5 23 34 2
1
76
IV
11 7 25 35 3
81
V
5
6 28 25 1
65
VI
1
6 8 22 26 3 1
67
VII
4 7 25 22 2 1
61
VIII
6 6 19 20 3 1
1
56
Totals 12 15 48 35 39 30 45 28 35 41 32 42 38 33 27 33 34 29 21 21 3 1 1 643
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
PER PUPIL COSTS - 1956
1. Population of Town (1955 Census)
2,949
2. Average School Membership
690
3. Equalized Valuation, per pupil
8,502.90
4. Operating Expenditures for Schools
243,939.52
5. Receipts Accredited to Schools
60,949.00*
6. Net Expenditures from Local Taxation
182,990.52*
7. Expenditures per pupil
353.53
8. Per Pupil Net Expenditures from Local Taxation
265.20*
9. Receipts per Pupil
88.33*
10. Transportation
Elementary
High School
Total 746
Number of Pupils
Mileage
645 39,053
101# 14,234 $ 5,396.73
53,287
Expenditures Expenditures
$ 20,754. 37
$ 26,151.10
per pupil $ 32.18
$ 53.43
$ 35.06
* Based on estimated receipts
# This number is the number transported January-June 1956.
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SCHOOL EXPENDITURES AND PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1957
Expended 1955
Expended 1956
Proposed 1957
I. General Control: Salaries Other Expenses
$ 14,665.80
$ 11,600.00
$ 12,810.00
1,682.05
1,679.69
2,175.00
II, Instruction:
Salaries
106,317.06
141,470.31
157,415.00
Other Expenses
11,771.96
12,013.38
15,140.00
III. Operation:
Salaries Fuel
8,864.27
8,909.24
10,816.00
7,378.46
8,588.52
9,450.00
Other Expenses
5,510.60
6,497.40
6,790.00
IV. Maintenance
Repairs & Upkeep
5,953.83
3,911.94
7,988.00
V. Auxiliary Agencies
Health
1,013.70
1,327.72
1,360.00
Transportation
26,433.45
26,151.10*
23,650.00
Tuition
31,416.29
18,866.25*
550.00#
Other Expenses
244.49
373.57
505.00
VI. Vocational
1,270.68
1,118.92
.00
VII. New Equipment
1,285.12
1,431.48
1,920.00
Totals
$ 223,807.76
$ 243,939.52
$ 250,569.00
* Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School assumed expenses for High School Pupils as of September 1, 1956
# Special Class
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GRADUATED IN JUNE, 1956 GRADE VIII
Peter Boylston Adams
Donna M. Algeo
Carolyn Angelo
Martha Livengood
Douglas Raymond Ashworth
Frederick V. B. Baltrush
Bruce W. Bergen
Sheila Maclaurin
Gail Evelyn Brisson
Charles Eliot McClennen
Donald Richard Chaussé
Penelope Hall Chellis
Elizabeth R. Ciraso
Anne Elizabeth Norton
Kathleen Mary Panetta
Peter Norman Richard
Judith Rodimon
Louise H. Rogers
Nancy Jean Rooney
Sandra Eleanor Seeckts
Alanson H. Sturgis, III
Sarah Curtis Tarbell
Pauline Eveleth Todd
Thomas John Williamson, Jr.
Steven Wood Ziegler
CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL
Barry Andrews Dawn Broderick
Barbara Campobasso
Charles Campobasso
Valerie Clark Allen Dougherty
Sandra Forbes George Gordon Murray Mills
Francis Smith
Frances Sullivan
Katherine Van Leer
WESTON HIGH SCHOOL
Judith Anderson Andra Cowles Edward Denton
David Donaldson Adam Gradeski William Rollins
HONORS
Allen Dougherty Barry Andrews Judith Anderson
Scholarship to Brandeis University Lincoln Scholarship National Honor Society, 2nd Honors
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Rocco D. Ciraso Joseph D. Cotoni, Jr.
Sara Seward Crane
George Benjamin Cunningham
Susan Bradford Davis
Daniel L. Donaldson
Daniel T. Fitzgerald
James M. Giurleo, Jr. Jeffrey Evans Gray Edmund Medford Huntley
DeWitt John, Jr.
Richard Stockton Kindleberger
Kevin John Lyons
Joan Spence Maclaurin
Alvin H. Neary, Jr.
Barbara Anne Neumann
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
STAFF ROSTER - JANUARY 1, 1957
Name
Position
Training
Appointed
Douglass B. Roberts
Superintendent of Schools
Tufts College,
1953
B.S., M. A. Harvard, Ed. D.
Robert B. Patch
Principal Smith School
State Teachers'
1952
College, Fitchburg B.S. Ed. - B. U. - Ed. M.
Louis J. Sapienza
Principal Center School
Boston University B. S. Ed.
1950
Phyllis Johnson
Grade One
Lesley College,
1946
B. S. Ed.
Augusta F. Sisk
Remedial &
Boston University
1946
Testing
B. S. Ed., Ed.M.
Ann G. Paranya
Language Arts
S.T. C. Montclair,
1949
N. J., A. B.
Irma Antonangeli
Grade Four
Fitchburg S.T.C.
1950
B. S. Ed. -
B. U., Ed.M.
Hazel Flagg
Grade Five
Sargent
1951
Miriam Zartarian
Art
Tufts College,
1951
B.S. Ed., Ed.M.
Joan B. Warren
Kindergarten Boston University B.S. Ed., Ed.M.
1951
Jane L. Brown
Grade Two
Boston University
1953
B.S. in Elem. Ed.
Physical Springfield College 1953 B. S., Ed.M.
George Drake
Shop Univ. of Washington, A. B. 1954
Robert A. Leach
Social Studies
Univ. of Alabama, A.B. _ Ed.M. , Univ. of Vermont
1954
Albert S. Reed
Education
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Name
Position
Training
Appointed
Harry T. Burke
Social Studies
Univ. of So. Cal. B.S. Ed., - B. U., M. S. E.
1955
Winona Church
Grade One
Univ. of Michigan A. B. Ed.
1955
Mary Helen Doherty
Grade Five
Wellesley College B. A. - Harvard, Ed. M.
1955
Julia Cole
Grade Three
Salem T. C. 1955
Elizabeth Derby
Music
Univ. of Cincinnati B. S. Ed.
1955
Cincinnati Conser- vatory, B. M.
Jerome R. Derwallis
Social Studies
R. I. School of Design, B. F. A.
1955
Timothy Rhodes
Mathematics
Harvard, A. B.
1955
Mary Salvucci
Home Arts
Nasson College,
1955
B. S.
Janice Simons
Grade Five
Russell Sage
1955
College, B.A. Oneonta S.T.C.,
M. S.
Dene Ulin
Grade Two
Conn. College for Women, A. B.
1955
Amy Volk
Kindergarten
Wheelock College, B. S. Ed.
1955
Joseph B. Herlihy
Science
Boston College, A. B., M. A.
1956
Mary Beard
Grade Four
Smith College, B.A.
1956
Harvard, Ed. M.
Martha Bucknell
Grade Two
Swarthmore College, 1956 B. A., Harvard, Ed.M.
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Name
Position
Training
Appointed
Maxine Dolan
Kindergarten
Kansas S.T.C., B. S.
1956
Mary R. Duplisea
Grade Three
Wheelock College, B. S. Ed.
1956
Amy Frye
Grade One
Wheelock College, B. S. Ed.
1956
Diane Furber
Grade Four
Tufts College, A.B.
1956
Elizabeth Grimm
Grade Four
Wheelock College, B. S. Ed.
1956
Florence Justice
Mathematics
New Brunswick T.C.
1956
Barbara Noonkester
Physical
Wilson T. C.,
1956
Education
B. S. Ed.
Olive Smith
Music
Univ. of Vermont, B. S. in Music Ed.
1956
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REGIONAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT
to the TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1955-1956
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1957
School reopens Winter Vacation Spring Vacation Memorial Day
January 2
February 18 - 22
April 15 - 19
May 30
School closes
June 21
Last day for Teachers
June 28
Teachers report School opens
September 3
September 9
Veterans' Day
November 11
November 28, 29
Thanksgiving Vacation (minimum day on November 27)
Christmas Vacation (minimum day on December 20)
December 23 - Jan. 1
NO_SCHOOL SIGNAL
In the event of exceptionally severe weather conditions or when the transportation system is disrupted, WBZ, WEEI, WNAC, WKOX and WHDH will broadcast the no-school announcement between 7:00 and 8:00 A. M.
Whenever school is not held at the High School bus service will not be provided for tuition students attending Concord or Weston High Schools.
Since weather reports are not always reliable, and since the School District desires to render maximum education service, the schools will remain open except in very severe weather.
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REPORT OF LINCOLN_SUDBURY REGIONAL DISTRICT SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The Regional School Committee this year has the enviable pleasure of reporting accomplishments that have been five years in the making. Credit for these is widely spread among the many individuals who have served on the Committee, its subcommittees, its predecessor committees, and among the many individual citizens of both Towns. The strong determination of both Towns to take maximum advantage of the fortuitous opportunity to establish a new secondary school of superior quality appears, at this time, to be well on the way towards accomplishing just exactly that. Particular credit can fairly be given to fortunate timing, dogged persistence, a most effective construction committee, some measure of good luck, and very competent professional guidance from our Superintendent, architects, legal counsel, and bankers.
The School was planned, constructed and completed within the time schedule optimistically established three years before its doors opened. On the first day of school, September 10, 1956, all equip- ment needed for conducting classes had been obtained and installed. Shortly thereafter the equipping of the entire building was completed.
As significant as the timely completion and equipping of the build- ing is the fact that in the face of constantly rising costs this was done entirely within the budget that had been laid down in the early stages of the District's organization. Our capital financing of $1,500,000 at an average interest rate of slightly less than 22% would cost the Towns considerably more today.
The most significant accomplishment to report is the employment of a teaching staff of outstanding quality. A competitive salary scale and exceptional professional opportunities did much to attract a large number of applicants from the limited supply. Besides these factors the Region's announced educational policy and the attitude of the two Towns towards the establishment and maintenance of a strong secondary school have facilitated the assembling of a superior faculty. The continued effectiveness of this staff will depend directly on the sustained interest in good education that has marked these two Towns.
Until a full year's experience has been gained and the objectives achieved measured against the costs incurred, the Committee can only report that with reference to operating expenses, it has earnestly sought to obtain the maximum result for the minimum outlay.
Respectfully submitted,
John W. Carman Elizabeth B. Harding Howard W. Emmons, Vice Chairman
Luther M. Child, Jr. William A. Wilson Victor A. Lutnicki, Chairman
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REGIONAL DISTRICT TREASURER
LINCOLN_SUDBURY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
TREASURER'S REPORT
District Fund
Cash balance, January 1, 1956
$ 305,627.46
Less: 1955 bills paid prior to January 10, 1956
4,612.23
Adjusted cash balance, January 1, 1956
$ 301,015.23
Receipts:
Sale of Treasury Bonds
$646,365.50
Lincoln assessment
57,971.47
Sudbury assessment
87,665.00
State Grant, building construction
31,881.42
Interest on treasury bonds
6,618.50
Refunds
23.04
Miscellaneous
1,120.72
831,645.65
$1,132,660.88
Disbursements:
District operating expenses
$118,202.52
Debt service
80,000.00
Interest
35,745.00
School construction
757,473.42
Payroll withheld taxes
232.63
991,653.57
Cash balance, District Fund, December 31, 1956
$ 141,007.31
Cafeteria Fund
00.00
Cash balance, January 1, 1956 Receipts:
7,119.31
$ 7,119.31
Disbursements:
6,902.35
Cash balance, Cafeteria Fund, December 31, 1956
$ 216.96
Athletic Fund
Cash balance, January 1, 1956 Receipts:
56.00
Disbursements:
9.00
Cash balance, Athletic Fund, December 31, 1956
$ 47.00
Total cash balance, December 31, 1956
$ 141,271.27
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$ 00.00
$ 56.00
Principal
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
BALANCE SHEET December 31, 1956
ASSETS
Cash
$141,271.27
Total Assets
$141,271.27
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Appropriation Balances: Non-Revenue :
Construction
$ 81,638.15
State Grant: Construction Costs
31,881. 42
Revolving Funds:
216.96
Cafeteria Athletic
47.00
Surplus Revenue
27,487.74
Total Liabilities and Reserves
$141,271.27
(Signed) George B. Flint Treasurer
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REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee:
This is the first report of the first Superintendent of the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District. The District was organ- ized and the school plant developed with overwhelming popular support. The development of the educational policies of the school were based upon the outcome of a study of secondary education by parents and teachers conducted under the auspices of the Lincoln School Associa- tion and with the co-operation of the Sudbury Parent Teacher Associa- tion. With this public participation in the planning process the school has been able to begin its functioning with a maximum of under- standing.
Now that the staff and parents have had an opportunity to adjust to the new situation, the detail planning of the enlarged curriculum, made possible by the increasing enrollment, is under way. A publi- cation describing the curriculum is planned for this Spring. This report is concerned with the professional staff and standards.
Professional Staff
The School Committee recognizes the paramount importance of the quality of the professional staff in its statement in the Educational Policy Bulletin issued in January, 1956:
"A superior school can only be developed through a superior pro- fessional staff. A superior staff requires not only exceptionally well qualified individual members who are fully developed mature people with interests beyond their areas of specialization, but also a proper balance of a wide range of specialized teachers who have teaching assignments which utilize these capabilities. All staff members must be prepared to function as members of an integrated team as well as expressing their own individualities.
"The quality of the individual staff members has been assured through several basic policy decisions.
(1) A salary schedule has been adopted which is fully com- petitive in starting and maximum salaries with the best schools in New England. (2) A staff organization has been created which provides reasonably small classes and thus permits a teacher to give close attention to the individual student.
(3) Each teacher will play a significant role in the planning of the courses he teaches in relationship to the total school curri- culum. The staff will be employed for these planning activities prior to the opening of school."
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The twenty two full time members of the staff were selected with great care. Twenty one were recruited from other school systems and one from Salem Teachers College. Four came from private school situations with one each coming from Montclair Academy in New Jersey, University School in Grosse Point, Michigan, Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, and Cambridge School in Weston. £ The remaining seventeen teachers came from eight public school systems with nine coming from Sudbury, two coming from Saugus, and one each coming from Holliston, Westwood, Needham, Newton, Brookline and Woodbury, Connecticut.
The teachers received their professional training in Colleges and Universities located in nine states and Europe. Included in the list are: Harvard, Tufts, Dartmouth, Columbia, Simmons, Syracuse, Middlebury, Radcliffe, Regis and The Sorbonne. A majority hold Masters' or higher degrees. All teachers of academic classes have degrees in the area of specialization supplemented by training in the field of Education.
The increase in enrollment in September, 1957, will permit the addition of several more members to the staff. This will make it possible to add several areas of specialization and increase the pro- portion of time that teachers will be utilizing their strengths in areas of primary specialization.
Educational Standards
"High standards" have been a central concept in the development of the philosophy of the Regional High School. This concept serves as a guide for long-range planning as well as a criterion by which we may conduct more immediate evaluations of our progress. The concept of "standards" is frequently limited to merely the scholastic achieve- ment of a significant number of the student body. However, we have visualized the scope of "high standards" to include and to be pri- marily concerned with the mental set or attitude with which the student approaches his studies in the school, his relations with the faculty and with fellow students, and his approach to his own future as an adult. It is the school's belief that the success of our young people will be strongly correlated with their attitudes while with us, and which they will take with them into industry or advanced schooling upon graduation.
These standards of attitude are thought of in terms of the individual's efforts to achieve them rather than as something imposed upon the student by an outside authority; i.e., the school has set high standards but our real success is measured by the individual's attempts to achieve them. A specific example of this concept is in our approach to a high standard of "good" discipline. Good disci- pline is self-discipline. We believe that a school which functions
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only through the withholding of freedom from its students does not have good discipline regardless of how meek and regimented the group might be. The standard of discipline is best achieved through the choice of our students as they impose self-discipline in their daily activities and are guided into correct attitudes and pattern of behavior.
To achieve this objective of self-discipline on the part of the student body requires two things: first, an understanding and accept- ance of the responsibility which accompanies freedom; and secondly, the protection of the majority of students from the actions of the few who by refusing to accept the responsibility for their actions threaten the progress of the larger group. The school took the first step last September when the "ground rules" relating to ex- pected behavior and self-discipline were discussed in homerooms and in assemblies. Included in this orientation were such items as the courtesy and respect to be shown to adults and in particular to their teachers, consideration for the wishes and freedom of other students, and the need to protect and maintain the beauty of their new school and its furnishings. Good discipline has been promoted through the personal relations which have developed between individuals as they go about their day-to-day tasks.
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