Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07
Atlantic Street School Building
Will Be Completed.
REPORT OF ARCHITECT
Thompson Investment Company Pay
-Supt. Hendricks Report
Special Promotions.

At last nights meeting of the board Of
education Architect O'Brien made a re-
port on the condition of the Atlantic
street school. He stated that in about
10 days the foundation would be finished,
and after that the work could be rushed
as the contractor, Fred Whiteside. was
experiencing some difficulty with the
stone masons. The work was good, Mi.
O'Brien said, and the carpenters would
begin to put joists in position early next
week.
President Mueller said the Thompson
Investment had given him a
check for $4,000, alance on the school
, property purchased from the school dis
trict. The president and secretary were
instructed to execute a deed for the
property.
A communication was read from Miss
Maud Tinsley stating that she could not
accept a position as substitute as she had
been elected as a teacher in the Great
Falls schools.
Trustee White stated at the last meet
ing Of the board the teachers committee
recommended that the salary of Mr..
Rowe should be $40 per month and the
intention of the committee was to limit
the period of employment to ten months,
and an order to this effect was accord
ingly made.
All bills, with the exception of those IN
payment of supplies were ordered paid.
Those relating to supplies were referred
to the supply committee.
The report of Superintendent Hem
bricks for the last half month Of school,
showing a total enrolment of 6,O57, OF
which number 1892 are boys and 1905 are
girls, was read.
On motion Of Trustee White the clerk
was instructed to communicate with the
city council requesting that a w be
laid on Galena street to the Atlantic
street school house in order that connec-
tions could be made by September l OF
this year.
superintendent Hendricks said that in
answer to many questions in regard to
promotions he would call the attention
of those interested to the following rules:
Special Promotion-Section LOG. It
shall be the duty of each teacher to re-
port to the superintendent for reclassi-
~fication any pupil whose progress or adj
vancement warrants promotion to a
higher grade, or who, by negligence, alb
sence or other cause, fails to properly do
the work of his or her class
1.-THE provisions of this section have
! OCC oOSC GU III al lAC oSllOclS Jul lie
the year. Whenever a pupils advance
ment warranted promotion, the re-classi-
fication was made upo the recommended
ton of the teacher and the principal of
the building. There have been a number
of special promotions during the year.
The teacher and the principal, in every
instance, carefully examined the appli-
cant for promotion. and it is safe to say
that there are very few pupils not re-
classified 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 during the school ear can be
taken into private schools with mixed
grades and in a few weeks time COM
plete the outlines of study which the best
experienced teachers. under the most
favorable conditions, with but two
classes and one grade, can hardly COM
plete in a semester of five months, or in
q 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 desired results. AS a rule pupils
will be better scholars by making
haste slowly and advancing regularly
with their grades and classes. The pu-
pills who are behind their classes and
have been receiving 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
in the above section, 106 Of the rules,
and the we'll known fact that the work
already outlined for the schools is all
that can be well done in a full school
year, of nine or ten months, and with
the purpose of keeping up a high stand
ard of scholarship in all grades, includ-
ing the high school, I can not consist
emily encourage pupils, either in the
grades or the high school, to make the
] attempt to secure special promotions.
There have been no arrangements
whatever with individual schools for
special promotions on certificates or
letters. and none will be made under
the rules, The provisions made in sec
ton 118 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 special
promotions. Section 11S of private in
structiOn' reads as follows:
"'All pupils taking private lessons or
attending private schools, making ap-
plication for promotion, will be require
to take the prescribed school examina-
ton under the direction of the city
superintendent"