Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-10


teach more than four hours and
another less than four hours in order
to make the total of eight.
10. High schools receiving aid
shall continue in session at least
thirty-two weeks in each year, pro-
vided the State High School Board
may give aid for a school running as
much as twenty-eight weeks if the
circumstances Justify the same. In
each and every years work in any
class of a high school at least four
separate studies must be offered.
Not fewer than sixteen Rotations a
week, of not less than forty minutes
each, shall be accepted by the board.
Studies under this regulation may
include industrial and commercial
branches.
IL. The course of study adopted
by the State Board of Education for
high school, or it's equivalent, shall
be used by the school receiving aid
under the Act. In all cases the
course of study must be approved by
the State High School Board.
IL. Pupils who have completed
the regular common school course of
study adopted by the State Board of
Education, or an equivalent course,
shall be admitted to the high school.
Such students may present certif-
Gates approved by their teachers and
countersigned by their county super
intendents and be admitted without
an examination. Other students
may be admitted to the high school
classes by standing an examination
on the common school branches.
ID. A careful record shall be kept
of the progress of each student in
the high school department, and
when such students have satisfac.
torily completed the entire course
they shall receive a certificate of
graduation.
Ia. High school districts which
have the requisite number of stu.
dents and teachers provided for in
the Act and which have sufficient
income to justify the same under
said Act, shall receive aid under the
following basis:
An approved two-year high school
shall receive 5000; an approved
three-year high school 800, and sn
approved four-year high school $500,
provided that in each case the above
amounts shall not be more than fifty
per cent Of the annual income of said
high schools. Provided also that
schools which meet the requirements
of the Act and these regulations in
regard to courses of study and num-
Der of teachers, but do not have an.
nual incomes double either of the
above amounts, shall receive fifty
per cen of their annual incomes
available for high school purposes.
Provided, further, that for each
additional fifty high school students
above the first 100 of enrolment, a
high school shall receive 500 add.
tional aid, and that an approved high
school having at least $500 worth of
equipment for teaching industrial or
commercial branches shall receive an
additional 800 Of aid each year,
provided that such additional aid
does not cause the total aid to exceed
fifty per cent of the annual income
of any high school district. If there
is an unexpended balance at the end
of the year the State High School
board reserves the right after having
due recognition to any special mat
tiers of local merit as provided in the
Act, to apportion such balance upon
the basis of enrolment to the schools
which have not received as much as
fifty per cent of their annual income
for high school purposes.