The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26

each succeeding set of whom is presumed
to be wiser than any OF its predecessors.
Recently the Board of Education, realiz-
ing the necessity of asserting its individu-
ality OF authority, authorized the appoint
ment by Superintendent Babcock of a
committee of principals, consisting of
Frank Morton of the Lowell High School,
Joseph O'Connor OF the Horace Mann
Grammar, Emma E. Stincen of the Whit
tier Primary and Miss P. H. Nolan of the
Washington Evening, to MAKE such sug-
gestions as were deemed desirable to the
better government of the schools.
After mature deliberation the Rules
Committee, consisting of L. r. Knox
(chairman), a. Comte Jr. and H. G. Hen
derson, has agreed upon a number of
changes which will be finally decided in a
committee of the whole.
The dates of the opening and the closing
of the school terms have been changed,
tardy teachers are held to stricter ac-
countability, patriotic observances are ex-
tended and emphasized, and janitors are
required to keep check on the coal con-
tractors. The new rules comprise the fol-
lowing provisions:
The first term of the public schools shall be-
gin on the first Monday of August, and end on
the Friday next preceding Christmas. The
second term shall begin on the Monday follow
ing the first day of January, and end on the
third Friday of June.
State Labor day is added to the list of school
holidays
If a teacher shall fail to be at his or her post
of duty at the appointed hour three times in
any one calendar month the principal shall re-
port such tardiness to the committee on rules,
and II thereafter the same teacher is similarly
tardy, he or she shall forfeit half a days sal
6ry.
Teachers are strictly forbidden to REQUIRE
their pupils to perform any menial service or
to send them on private or personal errands
during school hours.
The power to transfer pupils from one school
to another, when good reasons exist for so
doing, is taken from the Classification Com
mittee and vested in the Superintendents.
Any High School student may so arrange his
or her studies, under the direction of the prin-
cipal, as to complete the regular course In four
or more years.
Physicians certificates of vaccination, etc.,
given to pupils, must be countersigned by the
Health officer before they can be received in
the schools.
Janitors shall weigh all coal received at the
sch ools and shall report thereon to the pr Incl
pals. Certificates of these weights shall be
signed by the principals and sent by them to
the Secretary of the Board of Education, who
shall make record of the same and then send
them to the committee on supplies.
Janitors shall raise the American flag ON
school-houses on the first and last school day
of the school year and on the last school day
before and the first school day after each vaca-
ton; during public exercises, on Washing
tons birthday, Bunker Hill day, The Fourth
of July, Admission day, Patriotic day and on
such other days as may be ordered by the
Board of Education, the President or tn e
superintendent. The flag must be at half
mast on Memorial day, on the death of
teacher or pupil and on such other days as
may be ordered by the board, the President or
the Superintendent.