The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-05
TEACHERS AND PUPILS
ON HAND AFTER A
PLEASANT VACATION
New Receiving Grade Established this
Year-Principal Perkins Expresses
Himself on the Question Of
Punctuality

The long, happy vacation days have
come to a close For the past week
nearly every arriving train has brought
delegations of pupils returning from
mountain and lake camps, from distant
cities and states, where they have pass
ed the golden days in recreation.
But in this world there is an end to
everything, and Monday morning
school duties must be again taken up,
and ere many days have elapsed the
1908 vacation will be but cherished
memory.
The personnel of the staff for the
coming school year will be as follows:
Prof. b. A. Perkins, principal; Miss
Carrie Allen, vice principal; Miss Jes
sic Diamond, seventh and eighth
grades; Miss Mabel Cochran, Fifth AMI
sixth grades; Miss Mamie Wolf, third
and fourth grades; Mrs. Jennie Smith
and Miss Ella Lying, primary grades.
In addition there will be added this
year receiving grade, and all children
of the age of six years or over will be
entitled to admission at any time dur
ing the term.
When called upon this morning at his
residence by representative of the
Silver State News and asked if he hal
any announcement to make regarding
the opening of the fall term of school,
Principal Perkins said:
.sSchool will open next Monday, and
it is hoped that all prospective pupils
will register on that day and that they
will pride themselves on punctuai and
regular attendance throughout the year.
We all realize that irregularity of a.
tendance is a serious source of waste
in the school. Delinquent pupils not
during their absence, but they necessar-
lily retard the progress OF the class when
they return. They are dead weight
that the rest of the class is forced to
carry.
"With parents it should be definitely
understood that the only acceptable
excuse for absence or tardiness is either
the presence of some condition that
would make attendance dangerous to
the pupils health, or the existence in
the pupils home of very serious mis-.
fortune. Absence from school or tardi-
necc in coming to school caused by EN-.
ploying the pupil in services either at
home or elsewhere cannot be consid.
cred as wholly legitimate. When the
delinquency is due to the pupil and not
the parent, the action must me con
strued as insubordination and treated
accordingly.
"Although the law states that at
tendance is duty and delinquency
misdemeanor, and although public
economy demands that when the com
munity goes to the expense of main
tanning a school Tor the welfare of the
children that the children must be
there to partake of its benefits, it mty
he considered advisable to encourage
regular attendance ON the part of the
pupil through means of classroom com
petitions. The classroom maintaining
the highest average standing in this
respect during the month may be grant
ed half holiday. If this plan is adopt
ed, it would, of course, be common
sense qualifications, for it would be a
hort-sighted policy to create a nervous
tension among pupils that would pre-
vent even a legitimate absence, or that
would induce belated pupils to risk
crossing car track in front of NOV
ing train in order to avoid being
tardy"