Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-20

In Union District CONFERENCE.-The
ports From the superintendent
and Committees-Other Business
Transacted.
AT last evenings meeting Of the
Board of Education reports were re-
ceived from a number of the commit
tees and several questions of import
ance were thoroughly and Interestingly
discussed.
The Board was called to order al
eight o'clock by President Bowers, and
the roll call was responded to by mem
bers Armbrecht, Birney, Cranmer
Dudley, Hildreth, Maxwell, Mcconnell
Schaub, Warehouse and Williams.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were then read and duly adopted. Re-
ports from the committees on ac-
counts and on buildings and grounds
recommending the payment OF bills
respectively amounting to $164.3S and
$9.16, were read and on motion were
adopted.
A lengthy report from the commit
tee on rules and regulations, setting
forth various recommendations, was
next taken up in sections and acted
upon accordingly.
After the reading Of the first sec
ton, recommending that rule 10 on
page q, be amended so that a standing
committee to be known as the examin-
ing committee. be added to the list OF
standing committees and be composed
of three members, the superintendent
and two members of the board Of edu-
cation. 1t was moved and seconded
that this section Of the report be
adopted, whereupon Col. Miller op-
posed the recommendation on the
grounds that it did not conform with
the State law.
Mr.. Maxwell thought the examining
committee should be elective instead
of appointive and offered an amend
ment TO tnlS euecL
Mr.. Dudley next explained that the
committee had carefully considered
the matter and concluded that the 9th
err standing committees were just as
important as the examining commit
tee.
Mr.. Maxwell's amendment was
finally lost and the original motion
carried.
The other sections Of the report
which were then considered in order
is as follows:
Resolved, That the rule on page
50, relating to certificates, be amended
so as to read as follows: Teachers in
the first, second, fourth and fifth years
shall sustain an examination in the
common English branches, viz: Spell
ing, Reading, Penmanship, Arithme-
tic, Geography, English Grammar
Definitions. Teachers in the sixth and
seventh years shall be examined in
all foregoing, with the addition Of
U. S. History. Teachers in the eighth
year shall be examined in all foregoing
together with Physiology and Book
keeping; substitutes shall be exam
ined in all branches required for the
eighth year teachers.
For positions in the High School
applicants shall be examined in all
studies required for the eighth year
with the addition of the studies which
they are expected to teach in the High
School. Substitutes are required to
take the eighth year examinations
Substitutes for the High school shall
take the same examination as the
teachers in the High School.
I'VE would recommend that the ex-
amining committee shall hold annual
examinations for such persons as wish
to obtain certificates.
1.-The committee shall hold general
examinations at least once in five
years. At the option of the exam
lining committee certificates which are
numbered in all branches might De
renewed without examination if the
holder thereof has been teaching con-
tinuously since the date of such GER
tifcates.
"If but two branches are lower than
number one, the holder may at the op-
ton of the committee, be examined on
these branches only.
when more than two branches are
graded lower than number one, the
holders shall be examined on all
branches required for such certificate
DR.. Birney opposed the teaching OF
bookkeeping and physiology in the
grammar department for various rea.
sons.
Mr.. Maxwell then moved that pen.
manship be substituted for book-keep-
ing in order to have the Sth year tc
conform with the State law.
Mr.. Dudley raised a point at this
juncture. giving for his reason that
the examination of teachers was being
discussed instead of the course Of
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