, 1911-09-06

Tn this part the Board has ehdeaVoureu 70
bring together the general provisions, when
concern those persons, who as parents, guar
dams or employers, are responsible Tor the
instruction of children, whether TINS is gwen
!, the home. in private schools OF IN pubIlc
eobnnle-ond for those who undertake such
instruction. likewise whether III a school or
an the home.
The creation of more school districts is
desirable Ms many Of the children have too
1orn O ionrpev to school, and because u
,,etter arrangement Of the pupils could be
tbus attained (the elder pupils meelng Tor
instruction in the morning, the Younger III
the afterI Don, or wee versa IN the country
schools as in the town schools); but Tor
economical reasons it cannot at present be
carried out.
The school wear ought to be The same for
both town and country Oh account OF the
frequent removals from the one TO the other.
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Having regard to an orderly and systema-
tic course of instruction, the admission of
new pupils and the writing off OF pupils from
the lists should only take place nj the begun
mig and end Of h|aityc4l, not Us now at
any time OF the veal.
As hitherto, The parents should continue
to have q conditional right to allow thcr
children TO begin their instruction before
they become bouud-scholars and to continue
it after that period is past, but the volun-
tary scholars must not, rs now, attend or
remain away at will
At present some pupils are written off,
who have not acquired even the most elo-
mentary knowledge, on account OF their
having been absent to an incredible extent.
1t will be possible in future to retain such
pupils in the school for one or two half-years,
and this rule will certainly promote greater
regularity of Attendance, at all events IN the
last years Of u pupils school time, say at an
age Of IL to Is years.
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The reports ought to be made to the first
teachers in the districts, who VIII be in a
position to secure that no child i'll the dis
trict can escape the obligation to be instruct
ed, whereas it is impossible for the School
Director to have for all the islands such a
knowledge OF the population as j. sufficient
for this purpose,
Corresponding to the rule in the Mother
Country. BY this It Will be possible to fix
the ages Of the chiIdren-at present it often
happens that when the age for dismissal mp
proaches there is much discussion and much
trouble over this point. 1t will also be Sc
SIX kIhN Liz SAINT CLAO OCO NV II'Nh
under dife' ent names.
The provision that the person with whom
the child stays or is in service, rs we'll as the
chilu's parents or guardians, are responsible
for its instruction., but without the latter
being relieved of their responsibility, is taken
from the Law on elementary Education,
Leeward Islands, M, IA of 1890, and is alb
solutely necessary also here, where the re-
sLonsibillty for a child's absence is often
sought to be shifted from the employer to
the parents or vice versa.
The rules concerning filming and the
amount of the fines are taken from the Or
dinance now in force.
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It will hereby be possible to prevent the
prevalent and often meaningless, removals
from one school 10 another, 50 destructive
of all systematic instruction, alike for the
public and the private schools, a removal
which is sometimes carried GU Systematically
In order to escape attendance ut school.
In the year 1917 about 500 removal certi-
fcates were issued for children in the com
mnnal schools, which had ID all between
1905 and 400 pupis).
The fine proposed for tr1ns4re-~lous IS