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INSTRUCTION IN TEMPERANCE.
Twenty minutes a week are now devoted to teaching temperance in all grades, and the books specially adopted for this purpose are as follows : The Child's Health Primer, Hygiene for Young People, and Steele's Physiology, the abridged edition for the first grade grammar, and the larger edition for the high schools. To see the keenness of interest with which even the little children listen to the talks of the teachers upon the human body, confirms me in my conviction that we should have graduated instruction in botany, geology, and the kindred sciences, all the way along. The great work of the future is going to be a recasting of the course of study. The natural sciences will not be taught in the high schools, and arithmetic and technical grammar will not be taught in the lower grades so exclusively as now.
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ONE SESSION DAYS.
The following communication, add essed to the teachers, explains the arrangements made with regard to " one session " days : -
Hereafter, in weather that justifies " one session," the steam whistle at the shoe factories of Messrs. Torrey in North Weymouth, Clapp in East Weymouth, Hart in Weymouth, Newhall and Hall in Weymouth, and Fogg, Shaw, Thayer & Co., in South Weymouth, also, at the Iron Works in East Weymouth, will be blown at 11.45 A. M. (two long blows and one short one between, unless the engineers prefer to blow otherwise), to in- dicate that the schools throughout the town will keep until one o'clock and then dismiss for the day. No change of sessions will be made for a mere snow storm unless the snow is already deep and the storm driving. No change will be made for a gentle, drizzling rain. The shoe factories will be notified when to blow by a messenger from the public telephone station. Whistles will be blown as above at 7.55 A. M., when the weather is exceedingly severe and there is to be no school for the day.
VISITORS' DAYS.
Although visitors are welcome at all times, we have, as is well known, certain days set aside as visitors' days.
During the school year 1884-5, the schools received in all 3,783 visits. Of these 661 were in Ward 1, 1032 in Ward 2, 1074 in Ward 3, 366 in Ward 4, and 652 in Ward 5. For the number of visits paid each school, see statistical table appended to this report.
THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
During the year something has been done toward making the scientific department of our high schools more practical and thor- ough, as well as more attractive and popular.
Physics and chemistry alone, if properly taught by means of ex- periment, observation and careful thought, furnish an invaluable method by which the pupil may acquire practical knowledge for himself in the future. Laboratory work, even with limited re- sources in the way of apparatus, arrests the attention of the pupil, and keeps alive an interest where mere text-book description cre- ates disgust. It stimulates the inventive faculty, gives a better
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knowledge of common things, and better prepares pupils for mechanical employments where ingenuity and skill are required. For these reasons the scientific department of our high schools should receive special attention. It can be made exceedingly at- tractive to boys, and furnish them an inducement to remain longer in the schools. If the annual expenditure of a moderate sum of money for apparatus and laboratory equipments be continued for a number of years, - a sum equal to that expended this year, - it will result in making our high schools meet more fully the wants of an industrial community. How is Massachusetts to hold her own with the rich states of the Mississippi valley except through edu- cation, - not merely a classical education, but an education that shall take the possessor into the material world, and enable him to observe with a keener eye, and work with a more skillful hand.
Both of the high schools have been highly favored as regards donations during this year. The North High has received valua- ble specimens of minerals from different Weymouth parties, and thirty from Prof. J. D. Dana, Prof. E. S. Dana, and Arnold G. Dana, of Yale College ; also a collection of shells valued at $75 from a friend of the school and prominent citizen of the town. The South High has received from the Boston Society of Natural History a collection of three hundred and fifty shells, with name of shell and locality from which it came marked on each. It has also a valuable collection of minerals, to which friends of the school are constantly adding, and invited to add, and which, like that of the North High, now numbers some two hundred specimens. Both schools have a larger attendance and are doing better work than at any previous time in their history. Both have made a good begin- ning in laboratory work, and the South High has a room specially fitted up for this purpose.
CLOSER CONNECTIONS WITH THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
In the grammar school, in connection with the study of history, geography, and, perhaps, of physiology, and, in the high school, in connection with scientific study, theresought to be a collateral course of reading, more full of detail and more interesting than the text-books can furnish. While yet in school, the pupil should be led up through collateral reading to a fuller acquaintance with
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these branches, and so taught that, through the gratification of a desire for more knowledge, a desire created in the school-room, he will seek additional information with which to clothe the mere skeleton of facts obtained from the text-books, and so convert it into a living form. In the absence of a school library, a branch of the public library ought to be located in each large school build- ing, i. e., the principal should have charge of a weekly delivery of books. Each scholar on entering the grammar school should receive a card entitling him to take books. Last year mention was made of the preparation of a catalogue of books in the Tuft's Library suitable for the reading of pupils in the grammar school, in connection with the study of geography and history. This should be enlarged to meet the wants of high school pupils. With these things accomplished, the teacher may exert an influence upon his pupils to get them to read these books at the proper time in the course of study. Thus something would be done to create a taste for reading, and for better reading, and to enable the pupil, as he leaves school, to take up and carry on for himself the great work of progressive self-education in the school of life,- the true school, and the true education. This experiment has already been suc- cessfully inaugurated in the Bates School, South Weymouth, where the pupils, coming many of them from quite a distance, are especi- ally benefitted. The principal acts as sub-librarian, and attends to a weekly delivery of books. Other schools could undoubtedly do this to advantage.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS.
You have under consideration the matter of increased school ac- commodations in East Weymouth, and what I have to say about a training school for teachers may have some bearing on that sub- ject. Supposing one large central building is erected, and the grammar school scholars, among others, are transferred to it; the Franklin School would then become a primary school of three grades, first, second, and third. In connection with that primary school, when formed, I should like to establish a training school for teachers. The Franklin School building was originally built for a high school. It has a large study hall and two small recitation rooms on the upper floor, and is well suited to the use to which I should like to put it.
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What would be the advantage of a training school ?
It would enable you to do away with all guess work in the selection of teachers. You cannot tell a good teacher by merely looking at her and asking her a few questions. Teaching power lies deeper than that. It is largely a natural gift like singing or painting. Young ladies graduate from our high schools and apply for a position, but, failing to secure it at once, drift into other occupations. We lose some of the very best teaching talent in this way. It escapes us because we have no opportunity to test it beforehand.
Haverhill had a training school for years before it employed a superintendent of schools and relied upon it for keeping up the character of its schools. Quincy and Dedham have training schools and so have numerous other towns. I have before me the circular of the training school of Charlotte, N. C., which says : -
No lady will trust the making of a costly wardrobe to a young girl who has not learned to sew, just because she sets herself up as a dressmaker. But very many ladies trust their priceless children to inexperienced girls, just out of school, who have not made one hour's preparation for teach- ing. Such persons, with no knowledge of human nature, ignorant of meth- odsof imparting what they may know themselves, waste the powers and time of the children, just as much as the bungling artisan wastes the material with which she works.
Is not this true, and can't we effect a reform? I believe that the establishment of a training school for teachers is an entirely practicable scheme, which, if carried out, would enable you, first, to pick out unerringly the best teaching talent the town affords ; and, second, to place in charge of the schools only those who, having had some experience in teaching, would not have every- thing to learn. Their faults would have been corrected, in a mea- sure, under the eye of the expert teacher who would be in charge of the training school. Obviously, we should select our teachers with greater care than that which is exercised in selecting the fuel or furniture. Compared with the great living question, Who shall be our teachers, all others connected with school management are of secondary importance. Upon the teacher depends, in great part, the school ; and upon the school depends, in great 'part, the character of the rising generation. "In the importance of the work," says Henry Ward Beecher, " there is no profession stand-
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ing higher among us than that of the teacher, who, like Christ, goes down to the children and lifts them up."
I will not here enter into any details with regard to the organiz- ation of such a school, the pay of the apprentice teachers, and the like, but simply express the hope that you will give the matter your attention.
IN CONCLUSION.
I think it is a very hard matter to write a school report and speak with entire fairness of the condition of the schools. I ob- serve that the most glowing and eloquent school reports often come from those towns that have the poorest schools. Now, I would not have Weymouth classed with these towns that say so much and do so little. Rather would I speak out with entire frankness and expose faults, if any exist. Looking back over the year, I can see the high schools have gained ground and broadened their work ; I can see that decorating school-house yards has had a good influ- ence ; I can see that we have improved here a little and there a little.
The year has been one of general progress along old lines. The relations of all concerned in the management of the schools have been harmonious, perhaps too harmonious. Sometimes, as a Boston supervisor says, a man needs a good thrashing to get the best out of him. On the other hand, looking ahead, I can see that what ought to be done greatly outweighs that which we have already accomplished. Until we have put music into the schools, improved the sanitary arrangements quite generally, made the election of the best teachers the market affords a dead certainty, and put up among the shanty schoolhouses of East Weymouth a noble edifice that will be an honor not only to that village but to the whole town, we have no right to hold our heads very high. At the same time, the outlook is encouraging, - greatly so. With the telephone above ground, the water-pipes underground, the gas in prospect, and the village improvement associations reaching out their double rows of trees to meet each other along the main highways, the town is rapidly coming together. One thing helps another, and I pen these lines in full confidence that what we need will gravitate towards us. As soon as a new school building goes up in. East Weymouth, and its
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erection can't be long delayed, the schools in that village will take a long leap ahead, and those in the other parts of the town, feel- ing the effects of the improved condition of things, will mend apace. Soon, I hope, we shall be in a position to boast that we are in the vanguard of education, making long strides towards the realization of a high and just ideal.
Respectfully submitted. GILMAN C. FISHER, Superintendent of Schools.
FEB. 1, 1886.
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NAMES OF GRADUATES FROM THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
NORTH HIGH, JUNE 25, 1885.
CLARA E. BEALS.
ANNIE J. McGREEVY.
NETTIE E. BRADFORD.
MARY E. MORAN.
LULIE M. CLARK.
ANNIE W. PRATT.
DELIA COHAN.
CLARA F. PRENTISS.
MARY B. DUNBAR.
CLARA A. REAMY.
EDITH L. EASTERBROOK.
MABEL S. ROBBINS.
MARY E. FOGARTY.
MARY L. TUCKER.
CHARLES W. GAREY.
MARGARET T. WALSH.
SOUTH HIGH, JUNE 26, 1885.
A. AMELIA JORDAN.
CHARLES G. LONG.
MAGGIE H. GAVIN.
BENJAMIN N. ELLS.
SUSIE A. LOUD.
WARREN T. SIMPSON.
CLARA C. PAINE.
HAMILTON TIRRELL.
NAMES OF GRADUATES FROM THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, JUNE, 1885.
EVELYN C. BLANCHARD.
ANNIE L. BURRELL.
ADAMS. ANGIE CROCKETT. HATTIE L. Dow.
WALTER E. THOMPSON.
ATHENS.
GERTIE BEALS.
WILLIE BICKNELL.
EMILY LITCHFIELD.
GEORGE RAYMOND.
BATES.
RUTH GERTRUDE BAGLEY. · ADDIE MAY HOLLIS. ELLA FRANCES BURBANK. MARY LIZZIE HOLLIS.
NELLIE ALTON CBURCHILL. LUCY MABEL GAY.
JOHN FRANCIS HUNT. THOMAS MARTIN RYAN.
LOUISA MARIA HALLIGAN. HELEN FLORENCE TIRRELL.
CHARLES EVERETT HOLBROOK. JANE MARIA HOLBROOK.
NANCY WADE TORREY. MARY EMMA VINING.
WINFRED GRANT HOLBROOK.
JENNIE ALICE WELCH.
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FRANKLIN.
STEPHEN C. BURGOYNE.
SADIE L. BURRELL.
ALICE H. CLAPP.
MAGGIE A. DEE.
TERRANCE T. DONOVAN.
ETTA B. FAULKNER.
E. LOUISE FAY.
FLORENCE M. TALBOT.
JENNIE F. THAYER.
WILLIAM L. THAYER.
CLARA M. TIRRELL.
NELLIE B. TIRRELL. STEPHEN A. TIRRELL.
MARY T. TURNER.
HUNT.
MAGGIE Z. AHERN.
MARY V. BOUTIN.
FRANK C. CLEARY.
WILLIE T. COYLE.
MATTHEW P. GLOSTER.
HENRY J. M. HART.
MARY L. HART.
CLARA F. HUNT.
JOHN P. KEEFE.
ALICE T. KEOHAN.
EDITH B. LYON.
JOHN E. NASH.
LIZZIE T. PRATT.
SUSIE C. RICHARDS,
MARY J. SULLIVAN. FRANK A. WALLACE.
MINNIE S. WENDELL.
PRATT.
GEORGE R. JAGOE. J. FRANK MAYNARD. GEORGE H. MOORE.
HATTIE A. POOLE. WILLIE M. REA. FANNIE T. REARDON.
SHAW.
HENRY MELVILLE. JULIA W. MELVILLE.
LENA G. BAGLEY. FRED M. CLARKE.
ALFRED E. JOY.
FRANKLIN T. LITCHFIELD -JAMES McMORROW. GRACE M. NADO.
SADIE L. POWERS. EDDIE SLATTERY.
JAMES H. FLANNERY. 1 MARY J. FLANNERY.
BRIDGET T. FOGARTY.
ANNIE F. FRAHER.
KATIE A. HINES.
ARRIA W. ALLEN. P. FRANCIS BURNS. LIZZIE H. COFFEY. GEORGE M. FORD. JOSEPH HARDWICK.
P. HENRY MCDONALD.
NELLIE L. NELLIGAN.
ALLAN C. REMICK.
CHARLES F. SPEAR.
LUNETTE TIRRELL.
FLORENCE V. HATHAWAY.
MARY E. HUNT.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
· WM. A. DRAKE, M. D., Ward One .
JOHN C. FRASER, M. D., " Two .
AUGUSTUS J. RICHARDS, 66 Three .
66 66 1886.
66 66 1888.
L. A. Cook, EsQ., 66
Five
.
66 66 1886.
REV. W. H. BOLSTER, 66 Five
.
66 66
1887.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
Chairman, AUGUSTUS J. RICHARDS. Secretary, O. B. BATES.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. GILMAN C. FISHER.
OFFICE HOURS OF SUPERINTENDENT.
At North High School, on Mondays and Thursdays.
At South High School, on Wednesdays.
At Bicknell School, East Weymouth, on Tuesdays and Fridays, From 4.45 to 5.45, each school day.
Residence, near railway station, North Weymouth.
TRUANT OFFICERS.
GEORGE G. FRENCH, Ward One ISAAC N. TIRRELL, Ward Four ASA B. PRATT, Ward Two CHARLES HAWES, Ward Four
L. H. LOUD, Ward Three C. C. TINKHAM, Ward Five
Term expires 1888.
1887.
O. B. BATES, Four .
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SCHOOLS, SALARIES, ETC., JAN. 4, 1886.
TEACHERS.
SCHOOLS.
*GRADE ..
Sala- ries.
When elected to present position.
A. Preston Averill
Athens
.7th to 9th
$900
Sept. 2, 1885
Mary L. Ells. .
.5th and 6th
360
August
28,1876
Ella M. Burgess
.3d and 4th
340
August
20, 1880
Emma F. Thayer.
1st and 2d
320
August
6, 1880
Minnie M. Hunt.
Adams
5th to 8th
400
June 8,1883
M. Cora Wilder, Ass't
1st to 4th
200
July 20,1885
Clarabelle Pratt ..
River
.1st to 5th
340
August 27, 1876
WARD II.
Edgar E. Thompson
Franklin
9th
900
August 15, 1879
Mary L. Bates
8th
400
July
11, 1884
Ida J. Barker
7th
400
July
27,1883
Martha J. Hawes.
1st
320
August
22, 1884
Mrs. E. C. Hawes
6th
360
Dec. 28,1883
Mary E. Ford.
5th
340
August
22,1884
Annie McGreevy.
66
2d
320
July
9,1885
Mary A. Webster
School Street.
3d
320
Sept.
15,1882
Mabel J. Thayer.
Middle Street
4th and 5th
340
June 8,1883
Britannia E. Harlow
2d and 3d
320
August 22, 1884
Ida F. Taylor
Grant Street .
1st
320
August
11, 1882
Lucy G. Tucker.
6th
360
Sept.
7,1883
Katie C. Keohan.
66
1st
320
August
17,1881
WARD III.
J. W. Armington
Hunt.
.9th
900
April
6,1870
Hattie B. Baker.
8th
400
April
20,1883
Mary J. Moore.
7th
400
April
20, 1883
Sara E. Wilbar
.6th
360
Jan. 27,1882
Antoinette W. Knights
340
August
1,1879
Mary E. Walsh
2d
320
Sept.
2,1885
Annie W. Burrill.
1st
320
Jan.
4,1886
Emma F. Parker
Tufts
4th
340
August 28,1876
Hannah E. Ward.
3d
320
August
28,1876
Hattie E. Darcy.
2d
320
August
11. 1882
Hattie L. Reed.
.1st
320
March
30, 1882
WARD IV.
George C. Torrey.
Pratt
7th to 9th
900
August 25, 1873
Sarah W. Spilsted.
66
1st to 6th
360
Jan.
4, 1875
Ellena S. Spilsted .
Holbrook
.1st to 6th
360
Augu
29,1873
Sophia L. Vining ..
Shaw
7th to 9th
500
Nov.
20,1871
Mary E. Grundstrom
66
4th to 6th
360
Dec.
28, 1883
Mrs. L. B. Holbrook
66
.1st to 3d
320
August
29,1879
Sadie J. Holbrook.
Centre
1st to 6th
340
May
23, 1884
WARD V.
8th and 9th
900
Feb.
6, 1880
Lizzie L. Whitman
400
Jan.
5,1875
Mrs. E. J. Smith.
66
5tl and 6th
360
August
22, 1884
Ella M. Clark.
.1st and 2d
320
July
27,1883
Mrs. M. A. Morrill.
Howe
3d and 4th
340
Sept.
1, 1860.
Stella L Tirrell .
Thomas
.1st to 6th
340
Sept.
3, 1884
Martha E. Belcher
Pond
.1st to 6th
340
August
9,1878
Sadie Stetson
Hollis
.2d to 5th
340
July
20, 1885
HIGH SCHOOLS.
Frank H. Beede.
North High
.10th to 13th
1,200
July
30, 1884
Edith A. Parkhurst
500
August 31, 1882
Mabel S. Robbins
360
Sept.
2,1885
Nathaniel S. French.
South High.
.10th to 13th
1,200
August 11, 1882
Carrie A. Tower ..
500
Jan.
30, 1885
-
High Street
4th
340
July
9, 1885
Julia M. Talbot
Pleasant Street ..
.5th
Lincoln
66
Edgar R. Downs.
Bates.
7th
6
* Grades 1st to 3d are primary; 4th to 6th, intermediate; 7th to 9th, grammar; 10th to 13th, high.
WARD I.
Bicknell.
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RECORD OF ATTENDANCE FROM SEPT. 1, 1884, TO JUNE 26, 1885.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Whole No.
Enrolled.
Average
Membership.
Average
Attendance.
Percentage of
Attendance.
Number of
Visitors.
PRIMARY.
Adams (mixed).
Agnes T. Dunphy
24
22
19
85
53
Athens
Emma F. Thayer.
64
57
46
81
154
Franklin
Martha J. Hawes
68
47
39
83
54
Franklin
Sadie Stetson
34
21
17
80
37
Grant Street
Ida F. Taylor.
44
39
31
80
59
High Street
Julia M. Talbot
53
48
40
82
55
Howe.
Ella M. Clark
54
41
36
88
125
Lincoln
S. Lizzie Hunt
89
64
50
78
132
Middle Street
Britannia E. Harlow
48
47
39
84
45
Pleasant Street.
Katie C. Kochan
62
42
33
78
47
School Street.
Mary A. Webster
52
46
40
87
42
Shaw
Mrs. L. B. Holbrook
47
40
36
89
72
Tufts
Hannah E. Ward
53
48
42
88
115
Tufts
Hattie E. Darcy .
66
53
56
88
106
Tufts
Hattie L. Reed.
52
41
78
130
INTERMEDIATE.
Athens (mixed).
Ella M. Burgess.
35
34
30
87
85
Athens
Mary L. Ells.
47
43
41
95
63
Bates
Mrs. Emma J. Smith.
48
46
43
93
36
Bicknell
Mrs. E. C. Hawes.
49
41
39
95
73
Bicknell
Mary E. Ford ..
47
47
40
87
80
High Street
Lizzie R. Healey.
40
39
31
82
84
Hunt
Sara E. Wilbar
42
40
35
87
95
Lincoln
Antoinette W. Knights
51
46
41
89
105
Middle Street
Mabel J. Thayer
46
44
39
89
108
Lucy G. Tucker.
31
30
27
90
83
Tufts
Emma F. Parker.
49
48
44
92
92
Centre (mixed)
30
26
22
85
21
Holbrook (mixed).
44
41
36
88
34
Hollis (mixed) .
Mrs. L. B. C. Daniels
28
26
22
84
59
Howe (mixed)
Mrs. Maria A. Morrill.
42
38
37
96
126
Pond (mixed)
Martha E. Belcher
23
22
20
91
24
Pratt (mixed)
Sarah W. Spilsted.
43
39
32
82
69
River (mixed).
Clarabelle Pratt.
35
27
25
92
8
Thomas (mixed)
Stella L. Tirrell
24
21
19
90
63
GRAMMAR.
Adams (mixed).
Minnie M. Hunt.
24
23
21
92
83
Athens
Charles S. Haskell
39
37
35
96
195
Bates
E. R. Downs.
49
48
43
92
115
Bates
Lizzie L. Whitman
33
32
30
93
35
Franklin
E. E. Thompson
33
30
29
96
119
Franklin
Mary L. Bates
44
42
39
92
119
Franklin
Ida J. Barker
46
41
38
92
27
Hunt.
J. W. Armington
34
29
27
93
175
Hunt.
Hattie B. Baker.
33
31
29
93
65
Hunt.
Mary J. Moore.
38
35
31
88
59
Pratt.
Geo. C. Torrey
34
32
29
91
112
Shaw
Sophia L. Vining
25
23
21
93
63
HIGH.
Robert E. Denfeld
Nortlı High.
Edith A. Parkhurst
109
97
92
95
50
( Hattie Tucker.
Nathaniel S. French
South High
¿ Carrie A. Tower
51
46
43
93
40
Shaw
Mary E. Grundstrom
35
33
30
88
64
Pleasant Street.
Sadie J. Holbrook
Ellena S. Spilsted
-
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Population of town, according to census of 1880
10,578
Number of children in town, between five and fifteen years of age, by school census of May, 1885 : -
Ward
I.
273
66
II.
689
III.
495
IV.
262
66
V.
274
Total
1,993
No. of Scholars Enrolled.
No. Enrolled over 15 Years of Age.
No. of Teachers.
Ward
I.
268
7
7
II.
.
697
14
15
III.
525
28
11
66
IV.
·
252
10
7
V.
301
14
8
North High School
109
81
3
South High School
51
35
2
Total
2,203
189
. 53
.
.
.
This table is based upon the school registers for the year ending June 26, 1885.
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REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS.
SESSIONS.
SECT. 4. The schools are to be kept on the first five secular days: of each school week, and at no other time; the morning session to commence at nine o'clock and close at twelve ; the afternoon session to commence at two o'clock and close at four.
The time, however, of opening and closing the High School may be determined by the local committee.
RECESSES.
SECT. 8. There shall be, during the forenoon session of the. schools, a joint recess, not exceeding in duration fifteen minutes, including going out and coming in. During the afternoon session, there shall be a recess of five minutes for the primary grades, but. none for the other grades.
TEACHERS' MEETINGS.
Teachers are required to attend the Teachers' Meeting appointed by the Committee or Superintendent. Authority is given the Super- intendent to demand, in cases of non-attendance, a written explan- ation of the same.
SUBSTITUTES.
Substitutes shall not be placed in charge of schools by any teacher, without permission of the local committee or Superintendent
Unless other contract is made between the Committee and such substitutes, they shall receive the same compensation as regular teachers, and may render their bills to the town.
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SCHOOL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
RECENT ENACTMENTS.
INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
[CHAP. 332, ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT requiring Physiology and Hygiene to be taught in the Public Schools.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. Physiology and hygiene, which, in both divisions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of al- coholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, except special schools maintained solely for instruction in particular branches, such as drawing, mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualifications of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in this act.
SECTION. 2. All penalties now fixed for neglect to provide in- struction in the branches of study now prescribed by law shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in section one.
SECTION. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. [Approved June 16, 1885.]
ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ART. '
[CHAP. 30, RESOLVES OF 1883. ]
Resolve for the encouragement of Industrial Art in the Common Schools.
Resolved, That the board of education be empowered and di- rected te examine carefully the courses of instruction in industrial drawing, as adopted in the common schools, and to make such recommendations as may be best calculated to establish in the courses taught in said schools a closer conformity to the course of instruction of the normal art school ; to the end that the effect of its efforts in the direction of the cultivation and encouragement of industrial art may be more widely and thoroughly diffused in the common schools of the Commonwealth. [Became a law April 23, 1883.]
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FREE TEXT BOOKS.
[CHAP. 103, ACTS OF 1884.] . AN ACT to provide for the furnishing of Free Text-books and school sup- plies to the Pupils of the Public Schools.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. The school committee of every city and town shall purchase, at the expense of such city or town, text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools ; and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and regulations as to care and custody as the school committee may prescribe.
SECTION 2. Pupils supplied with text-books at the time of the passage of this act shall not be supplied with similar books by the committee until needed.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon the first day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. [ Approved March 22, 1884.]
[CHAP. 222, ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT relating to the employment of Children in manufacturing and other Establishments.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. Section one of chapter forty-eight of the Public Statutes, as amended by chapter two hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is amended so as to read as follows : - "Section 1. No child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mer- cantile establishment in this Commonwealth ; and no child under twelve years of age shall be so employed at any time during the days in which the public sehools are in session in the city or town in which he resides. Any parent or guardian who permits such employment shall for such offence forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the use of the public schools of the city or town."
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. [Approved May 12, 1885.]
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TRUANCY.
[CHAP. 155, ACTS OF 1884.]
AN ACT relating to the establishment of Union County Truant Schools.
Be it it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. Three or more cities or towns in each of two, three or four contiguous counties, may require the county commissioners of such counties to establish union truant schools, as provided by section fourteen of chapter forty-eight of the Public Statutes.
SECTION 2. So much of said section fourteen as relates to the case of Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable and Plymouth counties is hereby repealed. [ Approved April 16, 1884.]
[CHAP. 71, ACTS OF 1885.] AN ACT to prevent Truancy.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
Whoever, after notice from a truant officer to refrain from so doing, offers a reward for service to any child, in consequence of which reward such child is induced unlawfully to absent himself from school, or whoever after notice as aforesaid in any manner entices or induces any child to truancy, or whoever knowingly employs or harbors any unlawful absentee from school, or truant, shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars to the use of the public schools of the city or town in which said offence occurs, to be recovered by complaint. [Approved March 11, 1885.]
LIQUOR LICENSES.
[CHAP. 220, ACTS OF 1882.]
AN ACT to prohibit the granting of Licenses for the sale of Intoxicating
Liquors on premises within a certain distance of Public Schools.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION. 1. No license of the first, second or third class, under the provisions of chapter one hundred of the Public Statutes, shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any building or place on the same street within four hundred feet of any building occupied in whole or in part by a public school.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Ap- proved May 12, 1882.]
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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. [CHAP. 64, ACTS OF 1884. ]
AN ACT to prevent the spread of Contagious Diseases through the Public Schools.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
The school committee shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick of small-pox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person. [Approved March 7, 1884.]
[CHAP. 198, ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT to prevent the spread of Contagious Diseases through the Public Schools.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
Chapter sixty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four is hereby amended so that it shall read as follows : - " The school committees shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick of small-pox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person ; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a certificate, from the attending physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission, in accord- ance with the above regulation." [Approved April 29, 1885.]
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