Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-08-17
Resolutions orihe Board q Education
Passed .Jala 6-12. 1871.

Passed jug 6-12, 1871.
Be it Ordered, That an average atten
dance of twenty pupils be required in
order to constitute school supported
wholly by public fund, provided that the
Board Of Education may for sufficient
cause make exception in eases in which
applications therefor are made in due
form by the boards of district schools
trustees and endorsed by the county
superintendent.
Be it Ordered, That every board of
district school trustees shall require each
teacher to ascertain whether or not persons
applying for admission as, pupils into the
school have been properly vaccinated,
and to reject without exception all who
fail to exhibit satisfactory evidence of
vaccination.
a. BE it orlered That the attention
of school trustees be directed to the last
clause 0 fthe 46th section of the school
law which provides that mo person shall
be flowed to attend any public school
whose ia ther, L he be alive and resident
thin the school district, and not pau
per, shall have not paid the capitation
tax in aid OF the public free schools last
assessed on him ;, but the actual en-
forcemcn Of this clanse shall not begin
until the LIST of December of each year,
or until such other date as may be
fixed by law tor tax-collectors to complete
their work and to return their de linquen
list. a
e. When the tax collector of each
townsh ip makes his final returns to the
treasurer, lie shall at the same time furn-
ish to the clerk of school district within
viii ch he acts. list Of fathers who have
failed to pay the capitation tax and who
have children in the district between the
ages OIL five and twenty one years.
g. On the receipt of this list the
clerk sha i furnish a copy, thereof to the
teacher of each public school in tie dis
trict, and it shall then be tie duty of the
teacher to expel from, or to refuse ad-
m ission to, the school the child or chill
dren of every such delinquent father, un-
til tho tax is paid.
a. The atten lion Of school officers is
called to those portions of the school laws
and regulations which refer to the organ
izatioD, management, appliances and
general character Of the public free
schools, aud they are exhorted TO to Ter
ate nothi1g in the schools under their
charge that would impair their useful
ness, or make them in any way dis
credit to the state.
CD Officers are specially cautioned
against employing or licensing any teach
er who is not we'll qualified 70" the posi-
ton he seeks
g. County superintendent are re-
uired 10 revoke all teachers Ger iifcates
hereto fore given the revocation to take
effect August 31st, 1871. and until fur
Their prov ided no teachers certiGca tie
shall remain in force after the scholastic
year for which it is Issued.
a. County superintendents are au-
thorized to ascertain by examination
whether persons applying for the teach
er's certificate have specially studio the
theory and practice of teachi ing, and
where'thcy find this to have been the
case, the fact may be incorporated in the
certif ate by adding this subject to the
list of studies on which they have been
examined.
o. Boards of school trustees are ex-
horted to exercise grea caution N de-
termining the number of schools to be
opened in their districts and in fixing the
pay of the teachers, avo ding on the one
hand having the number of schools SO
small as to expose themselves justly to
the charge Of favoritisia, and the pay of
teachers so large as to exhaust their
means too rapidly and avoiding on the
other hand So great multiplication OF
schools and teachers as to occasion an mad
equate remuneration of those employed in
teaching, the result of which would be
greatly to the disadvantage OF the schools,
and the people Interested therein.