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EXTRACTS FROM THE RULES AND REGULA- TIONS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE SCHOOLS. -- DUTIES OF TEACHERS.
SECTION 1. - All teachers in the public schools are required to make themselves familiar with these regulations ; and the least violation of any one of them shall be considered a fair ground of complaint against any teacher.
SECT. 2. - The morning exercises of all the schools shall commence with reading the Bible ; and it is recommended that the reading be followed by prayer.
SECT. 3. - The teachers shall devote themselves earnestly and exclu- sively to the duties of the schoolroom during the school-term and school- hours established by the Committee ; and no absence shall be allowable, except for sickness, without previous notice to the Sub-Committee, and per- mission obtained.
SECT. 4. - When a teacher is absent on account of sickness for more than a week, the bill shall not be allowed for the time of absence, except by a special vote of the Board ; and no substitute shall be employed for more than one day at a time without the approbation of the Sub-Commit- tee.
SECT. 5. - Teachers shall have the privilege of taking one day in each term to visit any school or schools in this town, upon obtaining the con- sent of the district Sub-Committee therefor : they shall also have the privilege of taking one day in the year to visit the Quincy High School, upon the same condition.
SECT. 6. - It shall be the duty of the teachers to see that the fires are made in time to warm their respective schoolrooms before the hour ap- pointed for opening their schools ; and also that the schoolrooms, entries, and outhouses are kept in a neat condition.
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SECT. 7. - Teachers shall aim at such discipline in their schools as would be exercised by a kind and judicious parent in his family, and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be pre- served by milder measures. And it shall be the duty of the several teachers to keep a record of all instances of inflicting corporal punish- ment, which they shall exhibit to their respective Sub-Committees at each monthly visitation ; when said record shall be erased.
SECT. 8. - It shall be the duty of all the teachers to give vigilant atten- tion to the ventilation and temperature of their respective schoolrooms. A regular system of ventilation shall be practised, in winter as well as in sammer ; and the temperature of the rooms shall be kept as nearly as possible at 66º Fahrenheit.
SECT. 9 .- The teachers shall carefully observe and follow that require- ment of the State laws which enjoins it upon "all instructors of youth to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety and justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love of their country, humanity, and uni- versal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, modera- tion, and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded ; and it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear under- standing of the tendency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and. perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness ; and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices."
SECT. 10. - The principals of the several grammar schools shall, in ad- dition to their present powers, have jurisdiction over, and shall supervise the discipline, order, and conduct of, all the scholars belonging in their re- spective buildings, both in and about the schools and schoolhouse prem- ises ; shall indicate the hours fixed by the regulations for their assembly, their recess, and their dismissal; and shall be held responsible for the exact observance on the part of such schools of all the Rules and Regula- tions of the School Committee ; and the several schools shall conform thereto. And it shall be the duty of the several teachers to exercise, as far as practicable, a general inspection over their pupils while going to school and returning home.
SECT. 11. - Any teacher may exclude from school, for the time being, any pupil who shall exhibit habitual disobedience to the rules of the school,
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or who shall be known to be guilty of habitual immoralities, or habitual rudeness or impropriety of manners ; and the teacher shall immediately inform the parent or guardian of the child of such exclusion, and shall apply to the Sub-Committee for advice and direction. The Sub-Committee may prescribe any temporary exclusion which may be desirable ; and such scholar shall be admitted to no other school without the vote of the Board ; and the Sub-Committee shall report all such cases at the meeting of the Board next following the expulsion; and no permanent expulsion shall be made, except by the Board.
SECT. 12. - The teachers of all the schools shall be required to fill up with accuracy the blanks prepared for school returns, and to hand the same to their respective Sub-Committees, duly signed, at the close of each term, and accompany them with such suggestions, in writing, as may seem to deserve the attention of the Committee, and to be for the welfare of their schools.
SECT. 13. - No principal shall on any account leave his school in charge of his assistant, without special permission of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 14. - The doors of the several schoolhouses and schoolrooms shall be opened, and the teachers shall be present for the reception of the scholars, at least ten minutes before the time fixed for the schools to begin. The teachers shall require the scholars to be in their seats, and shall commence and close the exercises of the schools punctually at the prescribed hours.
SECT. 15. - No teacher shall make any purchase at the expense of the town, without first obtaining the consent of the Sub-Committee.
DUTIES OF PUPILS.
SECT. 16. - No pupil or other person shall cut, deface, defile, or other- wise injure the school-buildings, or furniture thereof, or the fences, trees, shrubbery, or any other property thereto belonging ; and any pupil or other person suspected of being guilty of such an offence shall be re- ported forthwith by the teacher to the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 17. - No child who comes to school without proper attention hav- ing been given to the cleanliness of his person and of his dress, or whose clothes have not been properly repaired, shall be permitted to remain in school, but shall be sent home to be prepared for school in a proper man- ner.
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SECT. 18. - Tardiness shall be subject to such penalty as in each case the teacher may think proper. Pupils absent from school must, on re- turning, bring an excuse for such absence ; and any pupil absent for more than two half-days in any month, for other causes than sickness or family bereavement, shall be reported to the Sub-Committee at the next monthly visitation ; and no pupils so reported shall be allowed to remain in the school, unless by the consent of the Sub-Committee. Every pupil wishing on any day to be dismissed before the close of the session must assign satisfactory reasons therefor, and obtain the consent of the teacher. Teachers having charge of pupils who are habitually truant shall, with the approval of their respective Sub-Committees, report their names, resi- dences, and the names of their parents or guardians, to the truant officers of the town.
SECT. 19. - Children not less than five years of age may be admitted into the primary department without an examination.
SECT. 20. - No pupil shall be admitted into any school without first ex- hibiting to the teacher satisfactory evidence of vaccination ; but such evidence shall not be required of pupils who go from one public school in the town to another.
SECT. 21. - Every scholar in the primary schools shall be provided with a slate, and shall employ the time not otherwise occupied, in drawing, printing, or writing.
SECT. 22. - The school year shall begin on the first Monday in Februa- ry, and end on the day next preceding the first Monday in February fol- lowing. It shall consist of two terms; the first term to begin on the first Monday in February, and the second term to begin on the first Mon- day after the close of the summer vacation.
SECT. 23. - The several schools shall commence at 9 o'clock, A.M., and 2, P.M., from April to September, and at 9 o'clock, A.M., and 1}, P.M., from September to April ; provided, however, that other hours may be substi- tuted by the respective Sub-Committees when the convenience of pupils and parents may render it expedient, subject to the approval of the Board. These hours shall not be altered without permission of the Sub- Committees.
SECT. 24. - There shall be a recess of fifteen minutes in length during each half-day ; and every pupil shall be allowed his full recess, although he may, for punishment, not be permitted to take it at the regular time with the school; and, in addition to the usual recesses, there shall be, in the primary schools of the lowest grade, two intermissions of study of
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five minutes each in each half-day, - the first intermission to take place midway between the opening of school and the recess ; and the second in- termission midway between the recess and the close of the session.
VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS.
SECT. 25. - There shall be the following holidays and vacations : -
Every Saturday, Washington's birthday, Fast Day, May Day, the week immediately preceding the first Monday in June, the Fourth of July, the seven weeks immediately preceding the first Monday in Sep- tember, Thanksgiving week, Christmas Day and New-Year's Day ; and the Chairman of the Board is authorized to suspend the schools on such public occasions as he inay think proper, not exceeding three days in the year. No other holidays shall be allowed, except by special vote of the Board ; and no school shall be suspended on any other occasion, except for special and important reasons relating to a particular school, and then only by express permission of the Sub-Committee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECT. 26. - No subscription or contribution, for any purpose whatever, shall be introduced into any public school. No person shall read to the pupils in any school, or post upon the walls of any school building, or fences of the same, any advertisement ; nor shall any agent or other person be permitted to enter any school for the purpose of exhibiting either to teacher or pupil any new book or article of apparatus.
SECT. 27. - The schoolhouses shall not be opened or used for any other purpose than the regular instruction of the public schools, except under the direction of the Sub-Committees respectively.
SECT. 28. - The text-books used, and the studies pursued, in all the public schools, shall be such, and such only, as may be authorized by the Board. The several teachers shall be at liberty to avail themselves of such books as they may deem useful for the purpose of illustration and example ; but the pupils shall not be required to furnish themselves with any but the prescribed text-books. It shall be the duty of the several teachers to keep a list of all the books supplied to the pupils by the town, and take charge of all such books when such pupils shall leave the school, and to furnish the books again, upon the order of the Committee, to any other pupils needing them.
SECT. 29. - Written compositions shall be required of all the pupils in the high and grammar schools.
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SECT. 30. - Declamations shall be required of all the boys in the high and grammar schools.
SECT. 31. - Singing and gymnastics shall be taught and practised daily in all the schools.
CHAPTER VIII.
IHIGH SCHOOL.
SECTION 1. - The examination of candidates for admission to the high school, to be conducted by the Board, shall take place in the first week of the summer vacation, and at such other time as the Board may order.
SECT. 2. - The principal of each grammar school or mixed school shall notify those members of his own first class to whom he can give a certifi- cate of good moral. character and presumed literary qualifications, to ap- pear at the high-school room on the day appointed, when they shall present their certificates to the Chairman of the Board. No books, manu- als, private explanations, or communication by one pupil to another, will be allowed.
SECT. 3. - Candidates shall be examined in all the studies pursued in the grammar schools of the town; and a thorough knowledge of such studies shall be indispensable to admission.
SECT. 4. - Special applicants may be admitted, if they are found quali- fied in the studies required for admission, and also in the studies of the classes they propose to join.
SECT. 5. - There shall be one daily session of this school, commencing at 9 o'clock, and ending at 2 o'clock, from September to April, and be- ginning at 8 o'clock, and ending at 1 o'clock, from April to September.
SECT. 6. - The time allowed each day for recess shall be thirty min- utes ; the recess to be given in such portions as in the judgment of the principal shall be best for the pupils.
SECT. 7. - Any pupils who, through neglect or idleness, shall render, in the course of three months, less than seventy-five per cent of perfect lessons upon the whole number of lessons required, shall be reported to the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 8. - Every pupil who shall have completed a three-years' course of study in this school shall receive a diploma.
SECT. 9. - All the regulations of Chapter VII., excepting Sections 19, 21, 23, 24, shall apply to the high school.
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