The morning call., 1891-02-19
NEW SCHOOL RULES.
No More Skating Rink Passes to
the Children.

The meeting of the Committee on Rules
and Regulations of the Board of Education
last night was well enough attended by the
| board members to constitute a special meet
| ing. Directors Decker, Dunn, Culver and
| Superintendent SWEET of the committee
| were present, besides Directors Hyde,
Brooks, Woodward and Pennington, and
Secretary Beanston and Assistant Superin-
tendent Babcock. The work in hand, cOdi-
| flying the new rules, is perhaps of greater
| Importance than any undertaken since the
| compilation of the old rules, and all the
| Directors are more or less interested in it.
Great pains are being taken to have the new
| code as near perfect as ii is possible TO get
them.
Before undertaking the evenings work
Chairman Decker said he had been ha-
raised day and night with propositions OF
| all kinds to use his department, aud 10
| fuSing TO take any responsibility on HIM
self had instructed applicants to appear be-
| fore the committee.
A representative of the Olympian Skating
Rink asked for the privilege Of Issuing free
tickets to the children of the schools to at
tend the rink on Saturdays.
Superintendent SWEET said he was OPP
| posed to it. He recalled the experience of
the teachers some three or four years ago,
when the girls of the department seemed to
have been seized with passion for skating.
1t gave the teachers a deal of bard work
| and annoyance to gain control OF them
| again. There was doubt in his mind about
the morality of such resorts.
DO NOT WANT THE PASSES.
Hyde opposed the proposition because it
| would be interfering with parental author
| ity. If the board should indorSe skating
Kinks by accepting free passes for the chill
| dreD, and parents should dlsapprove of
| their children attending, there would be an
| cutlery at once. The best way, he thought,
and the Superintendent approved, would be
| for the board to refuse all attempts of what
ever nature to use the schools for advertis-
| ing purposes.
| The proposition was voted down.
The consideration of the rules was re-
! sumed where. the work was dropped at the
| last meeting. The task Is large one, and
! though reasonably good Roadway was made
| last night it will require another session or
two to get through.
1t took deal of discussion to dispose
| of the mooted question whether or not
| principal or assistant returning from a long
| leave of absence should be entitled to the
same position in the school.
The general opinion seemed to be that
teacher who had been more than ten years
in school should be reinstated in the same
| position.
| AN UNCOMFORTABLE RULE
! Hyde suggested that such rule, though
consistent on general principles, might
! prove uncomfortably binding and advised
care in adopting it. He thought it quite
enough to bind the board to reinsiate
teacher to the same grade. whether it be the
| same or some other school. The policy of
| the board will be TO put returning princi-
| pal in the place he or she formerly occupied
if deemed wise, otherwise it should not he
| compelled to do so.
1t was finally decided to accept Hyde's
| suggestions
Hyde attended the meeting in battle array.
! He is an exponent of retreuchment and
stoutly champoned Buttons proposition at
the last meeting of the board to reduce the
| substitute class of teachers to twenty. 1t
| was referred to this committee without in
! structions, although HYDE fought hard to
| have the reference contain the command that
| such rule be incor in the code. He
| was told that if he wanted such a rule
he could attend the meeting and propose it.
| He attended and had the rule all framed
| ready to propose, but the meeting did not
| reach the head under which it would properly
| come before adjournment 1t Will come up
at the next meeting