The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06

close ON the last day of June of the year
following. A school week shall consist of
five days, a school month of twenty days,
and a school term of ten weeks. No school
shall be taught on a legal holiday nor on
any Saturday, without the consent of the
trustees. A legal holiday falling upon a
day which which otherwise would be day
OF school shall be counted a day of school,
and the teacher shall be paid therefor.
Sec. 60-Every teacher in the district
schools shall teach pupils, when they are
sufficiently advanced to pursue the
same, the following branches to
wit: reading, spelling, writing,
arithemetic, language lessons, English
grammar, Geography, United States his
tory, physiology and hygiene, giving
special instructions concerning the nature
of, and effects produced by the of use alco
holic drinks, stimulants and narcotics.
Sec. 61-When teachers Institute is
appointed to be held for any county,it shall
be the duty Of the county superintendent
to give written or printed notice of the
time and place of holding such institute, at
least ten days before the opening of the
same, TO each teacher in the district
schools in the county, and as far as posi-
BILE to all others not then engaged in
teaching, who are holders of teachers GER
tificates. Each teacher receiving such
notice who is engaged in teaching during a
period which includes the time of holding
such institute shall close school during the
holding of such institute and attend the
same, and shall be paid by the school board
of the district one-half of his regular salary
as teacher for the time during which he
attended such institute as certified by the
county superintendent. The certificate of
any teacher may be revoked by the county
board of examiners when upon due exam
nation and inquiry it appears that he is
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attend a teachers institute held for such
county.
Sec. GA teacher may suspend from
school for not more than five days at any
one time any pupil for INSTRUMENTATION or
habitual disObedience or disorderly con-
duct. In such case, the teacher shall give
immediate notice of such suspension, and
the reason thereof, to the parents or guar
dian of such pupil, ana also to some mem
Der of the district school board.
Sec. 63-It shall be the duty of the teach
ers to assign to each pupil such studies as
he is qualified to pursue and to place him
in the proper classes; provided, that in
| graded schools the principal or superintend-
ent shall perform such duty.
Sec. 64Teachers shall enforce the use of
text books and the rules and regulations
prescribed for schools. Any pupil who
cuts, defaces, or otherwise Injuries any
SCHOOL property is HaDIe TO suspension from
schol and upon complaint of the teacher or
any trustee, the parent or guardian of such
pupil shall be liable for all damages.
Sec. 65-No atheistic, infidel, sectarian,
or UNCONVENTIONAL doctrine shall be taught
in any of the district schools of this terri
tory. Moral instruction tending to i'm
press upon the minds of the pupils the i'm
portance of good manners, truthfulness,
temperance, purity, patriotism and indust-
try. shall be given in every district school.
supplies shall be furnished by the school
board, free of charge, to INDECENT pupils.
Such books and supplies shall be used under
the direction of the teacher
Sec Gail district schools in this ter
ritory shall be taught in the English Ian
guage.