The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-09-14
HIGH SCHOOL.
Principal Rusca Announces Date of Open
ing and Regulations Governing
Work of Term-Co-op-
oraffon Trped
Grafton Urged


Grafton Urged
On Monday, Sept. %, at 8 O'Clock
a. M, the Donaldsonville High School
will throw open its doors for the ses-
sion of 19O7-08.
WHO MAY ENTER?
All educable children between the
ages of 6 and Is years residing in this
school district; also all pupils in the
parish who are qualified to enter
above the eighth grade, as we'll as
those above the sixth grade to whom
the nearest grammar school is not
accessible.
Boys and girls from other parishes
qualified to enter the high grades may
be admitted upon payment of certain
fees prescribed by law.
CLASSIFICATION.
Pupils who attended the high school
last session and who were present for
examinations will report on Monday
morning. the 23rd inst, and will be
assigned to grades according to their
records Oh file ia the principals
office.
All pupils holding promotion cards
will present them on the opening day
at time to be announced later.
Those pupils who were absent from
the examinations for valid reasons,
or who were forced by circumstances
to leave school during the latter half
Of the term, also all new applicants
for admission, will present themselves
for examination and classification
on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 10
and 20, at 8 O'Clock a. M, in the high
school building.
All examinations and classifcations
will be made by the principal, and no
new pupil will be permitted to enter
any grade who does not hold the
proper assignment card.
Parents are urged to present their
children on the above dates and
thereby save delay in their classical
ton.
Any single set of examination pa
pers is not always criterion by
which to judge pupils scholarship,
ability or capacity, hence those fail
ing to make good in the grade to
which they have been assigned, or
proving too strong for the grade, will,
at the expiration of two weeks, or
earlier, be denoted or promoted, as
the case may seem to justify.
co OPERATION.
Parents are requested to cooperate
with the teachers in all matters per-
tanning to the welfare of their children
and of the school, provided that the
teachers time be not taken up during
school hours.
They are urged to take note of the
departure of their children for school
and to see that they leave home in
time to reach the school premises not
later than 8:55 and not earlier than
$50 a. m, as teachers will not be re-
sponsible for their conduct before tn at
time.
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES.
Upon the written request of parents
or a personal visit in the case of
those who cannot write, pupils will
be excused from school for religious
observances.
A single written request at the open
ing of school will suffice in the case of
those who attend catechism regularly.
In no case will such absences for
religious observances or instruction
on the part of any pupil in school be
made to count against that pupil in
attendance, scholarship or deport-
ment, except indirectly in so far as
the pupil fails to answer questions in
the regular examinations.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course of study followed is the
same adopted by the state board of
education for the public schools of the
state and requires eleven years for it's
completion.
It is systematic and harmonious
and affords every pupil gradual
and sure development of his mental,
moral and physical powers.
Calisthenic exercises, marching into
and from the building, the use of
gymnastic apparatus, indoor and out
door exercises and games, including
basketball and baseball, streng then
aid develop the bodies, while the
teaching, both by precept and ex-
ample, of honesty, reverence, temper
ance, purity, patriotism, justice, mercy
and obedience make for good charac-
ter and good citizenship.
Upon the satisfactory completion of
the course pupils are awarded state
high school diploma, signed by the
state uperintendent of education, the
parish superintendent and the prin-
cipal.
The work of the last three years of
the course, which embraces all of the
studies OF the high school proper,
is arranged not only to meet the needs
of the many boys and girls whose
school days end here, but to qualify
Them to enter any of the higher insti-