The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-11-07
UNIFORMITY IN TEXTBOOKS.
Action of the State Board OF Examiners,
Intended to Secure that End.

Intended to Secure that End.
The following circular of instructions
from the State Board of Examiners has
been sent to the school authorities in the
several counties, and is of especial inter
est to teachers, parents and guardians:
At regular meeting of the State
Board of Examiners held on September
4th and 5th, 1889, the following resolu-
ton was adopted:
Resolved, That the peculiar condition
of affairs in this State by reason of
which, not only in each county, but in
each school district, there are teachers
and pupils of different classes and races,
possessing different capacities to teach,
learn and purchase books, it would be
injurious to educational interest to adopt
a single list Of textbooks for the State.
That in order to secure hexibllity IN
the system, aud to meet the varying
wants Of the schools, and, at the same
time, to prevent frequent changes IN
text books in a school, which impose
vexatious and unnecessary expense upon
parents, the State Board of Examiners
hereby adopts the following rules and
regulations to govern the use OF text
books in the public schools of the State:
The list OF textbooks to be adopted
by the State Board for use in the puollc
schools shall be elective in character.
On or before Thursday, October 25,
1858, the County Board of Examiners in
each county shall, from said State list,
adopt single series for use in the pub
lie schools of their respective counties,
provided that upon application from
the teacher and Trustees of any school,
within thirty days after said county
adoption, or thirty days after the estab-
lishment of any new school, on good
and sufficient reasons being shown, the
County Board may allow the substitution
in said school of any other book on the
same subject from the list adopted by
the State Board.
A series oLce adopted shall not be
changed during the period of adoption
by the State Board without permission
from the said Board. This shall not,
however, prevent the use in schools
where the same may be needed, by and
with the consent of the County Board OF
Examiners, of two series OF Readers on
the State list to be used alternately, or
of proper supplemental reading. The
series adopted shall be put in force &C.
cording to the commencement OF the
schools. not later than the fall of 1889.
All resolutions by the County Board
of Examiners pertaining to the adoption
of textbooks shall be recorce1 by the
Comfy School Commissioner in book
kept by him for the purpose, and copies
of the same forwarded by him, within
thirty days, to the office of the State
Superintendent of Education.
Any teacher who, while receiving pub
lie school funds, uses textbooks in the
course of study prescribed for public
schools that are not on the State List,
shall forfeit his pay from the public
school fund for the time he uses them.
Any teacher may refuse to teach any
pupil who is not supplied with the text
books prescribed tor said school. Pupils
passing from one school to another,
must conform to the list adopted for the
latter.
The Trustees, or, in their default, the
County Board of Examiners, shall en-
force these provisions. The County
School Commissioner shall withhold
approval of pay certificate of any teach
or not conforming thereto; and the
teacher persisting in violating the same
shall be deprived of his certificate OF
qualification.
1t is advisable that there be adopted,
as far as possible, the same books for
schools of the same class and grade
within the county, in order to secure, as
far as practicable, county uniformity.
It shall be the duty of the County
School Commissioner to report to the
State Board any attempt on the part OF
of any publishing house, whose books
are on the State list, to induce any
change from the list regularly adopted
for any school.
As these provisions are in the interest
Of economy, parents are requested to CO.
operate in securing their enforcement.