The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-06-19
Teachers Department.
The New school Law.

The New School Law.
According topromise, we will try to
give some of the principal points in
the New School Law. With the
limited time at our command, we have
been unable to give the law that full
and careful study that is necessary to
give a satisfactory synopsis or review
lit. We'hope others will take up
points that we may overlook. Our
edition of the old laws is that of '62.
The new law contains 159 sections
and one amendment. There is no
index, and noforms or opinions are
added. We will confne our remarks
to the sub-districts, leaving ''city'
and especial" districts to others more
interested and better posted.
The Boards of Education are com
posed as before. The election is to
be held as heretofore, organizing "by
appointing Chairman and Secretary,
who shall act as judges of the election
The Secretary shall keep a poll-booH
and tally-sheet, which shall be signed
by the judges and delivered within
five days to the clerk of the TIP.
The Directors shall meet within
five days and appoint one of theil
number Clerk, who shall preside al
theirmeetings, &c. There isno provis
ion specifying the hour of election Ii
case Of failure to elect, or q vacancy
occurring, an election may be held fol
the aueapired term, If IA special elec
ton is not called, the Township Clerl
shall appoint, to fill the vacancy unit
meet election. 1t is also required by
Sec. 27 that said Director be, com
petent person. ...-- ga. n -sr,-..
Sec. % provides that no sub-dis
trict shall contain less than sixty resi-
dent scholars by enumeration, ereep
in cases where, in the opinion of tn,
Board, it is necessary to reduce thu
number. -,.s..- - --..st-.---...
Sec. 33 provides for enumeration
as before, but Sec. " also provides
for an enumeration to be taken be
tween the first Monday in Septembe
and the first Monday in October, ant
that the person taking said enumera
ton shall act under oath, and receiv
compensation
County Examiners are to be ap
pointed, so that the term of one shal
expire each year, and they shall no
be in any way connected as teacher
with "any Normal School, or schoo
for the special education or trainini
of teachers. The Probate Judge ma
remove an Examiner if inefficient
negligent, or guilty of immoral cor
duct" ...
Sec. 81 provides for payment @
special teachers of drawing, painting
penmanship, na"sic, gymnastics, o
any foreign language.
Sec. 116 we give in full: 'sEac
teacher employed in the Commo.
Schools of this State, shall have
right to dismiss his or her schoc
without forfeiture of pay, on Ne1
years day, the Fourth of July, Christ
mas, and on any day set apart b.
proclamation of the President of tn
United States, or the Governor @
Ohio, as a thanksgiving or fast day.
We close for the present only ado
ing, that we notice nothing defninI
the status, of teachers in regard t
corporal punishment, which we thin
is to be regretted, as it leaves ther
subject entirely to the whim an
caprice of the courts.
P. S. Since the above was writer
we have met with the following yer
full and satisfactory synopsis of tn
new School Law, which we copy fo
the information of teachers and th
public generally:
from the Cleveland Herald