The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-07
SCHOOL BOARD NEE TING
Merely Routine Business Was
Transacted.
BILLS ARE ORDERED PAID
Report of Superintendent Hendricks
Regarding Special Promotions.
No Royal Road-Hard
Study Counts.

| The first session of the school board
night, with all members except Mou1-
| throp present. Chairman Mueller called
| the meeting to order, but yielded the
| chair to Vice President Lane under
pressure of a date. Merely routine
| business was conducted. The deed for
the East Broadway school property was
| examined and the check for S., 400 from
the Thompson Investment company re-
ceived in payment.
Bills amounting to $9s267 were order
| ed paid. Superintendent Hendricks re-
| ported as follows:
In answer to many questions regard
| ing special promotions, 1 respectfully
| call attention to the following rules of
this board:
"'Section 1O6-It shall be the duty of
each teacher to report to the superin
tendent for Redistribution any pupil
whose progress or advancement war
| rants promotion to a higher grade or
who, by negligence, absence or other
cause, fails to properly do the work of
his or her class
THE provisions of this section have
been observed in all the schools during
the year. Whenever a pupils advance
ment warranted promotion the reclass-
ification was made upon the recommen-
dation of the teacher and the principal
of the building. There have been a
number OF special promotions during
the year. The teacher and the princi-
pal in every instance carefully exam
med the applicant for promotion and it
| is safe to say that there are very few
pupils not reclassfied who would be
benefited by a special promotion on the
strength of five or six weeks study
during the summer vacation. 1t does
not stand to reason that pupils of ave-
rage standing in their classes during
the school year can be taken into pri-
Vate schools with mixed grades and in
few weeks time complete the out
lines of study which the best expert
enced teachers under the most favor
able conditions, with but two classes
and one grade, can hardly complete in
semester of five months or in a
school year of nine months.
There is no royal road and it takes
just as much time, careful instruction
and hard study in one good school as it
does in another to accomplish the de-
sired results. AS a rule pupils will be
better scholars by making haste slowly
and advancing regularly with their
grades and classes. The pupils who are
behind their classes and have been re-
ceiving low grades of scholarship can
be greatly assisted by taking a special
course of study during the summer
months.
Therefore, taking into consideration
the provisions for special promotions III
the above section 106 of the rules and
the Well-known fact that the work al
ready outlined for the schools is all
that can be well done in a full school
year of or 10 months, and with the
purpose of keeping up a high standard
of scholarship in all grades. including
the high school, I cannot consistently
urge pupils, either in the grades or in
the high school, to make the attempt to
secure special promotions.
, There have been no arrangements
wha tever with individuals or schools
for special promotions on certificates or
letters and none will be made under
the rules The provisions made in sec
ton lis of the rules will be enforced and
careful written examinations will be re-
CURED at the opening of the schools in
September of all pupils asking for spe-
cial promotion.
Section lis. reads as follows: 'All
pupils taking private lessons or attend
ing private schools making application
for promotion will be required to take
the prescribed school examination I'M
der the direction of the city superin-
tendent.'"
Supervising Architect O'Brien report
ed progress in the work of constructing
the Atlantic avenue school house. and
stated that unless the contractor works
faster than he is now working the
building will not be completed before
the middle of September. He said how
ever, that the contractor was doing a
fair job. The architect was instructed
to employ a competent mechanic to
properly repair the roof and cornices
of the High school building. The clerk
was instructed to communicate with
the city council in the matter of con-
Meeting the new school house on Allan
tic avenue with the sewer system