Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-02

| the place OF the now famous rule Az OF
| the handbook of the board. Its principal
/! feature states that no principal, direc
| tor, teacher of drawing or physical culture
| or clerk other than those III the ADMIN
| lStratlVe offices. or any regular teacher
shall be absent except in case of per-
| SOnal illness, contagious disease in the
| home or pressing emergency" In case
| of any absence the next highest school
authority must be Immediately notified
4 and substitute or temporary teacher
| provided.
Janitors in Same Glass.
| Janitors are in the same class with the
teachers-they have to be on the job. and
substitutes must be provided for them
| in case of illness. A system of daily
| absence reports will be inaugurated.
| For each day of absence under the pro-
| visions of these sections there will be
| deducted one-thirtieth of one-tenth Of the
annual salary, provided that If such en-
ploye Is absent both on the school day
| Immediately preceding and Immediately
succeeding a holiday. 1t shall be consider
| ed that said employee has been absent
| on each and every day of said holiday.
| Provided further that If such employee
| was present on either the school day inn
mediately preceding or Immediately sue
| ceeding holiday, 1t shall be considered
| that said employee has been present on
| each and every day of said holiday"
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| the rule SO that teas, bridge, parties and
| base ball games may not be regarded as
| legitimate causes for absence.
| A report of absences for January was
read to the board 1t was pointed out
| that the absences in the month just
| closed were scarcely different in point of
number from those in December. The re-
port was furnished to refute the criticism
| that before the decision of the controller
! was made the teachers were absent in
| great numbers for all sorts OF trivial rea
sons, and would not be absent SO often
| from that time on
No Coal Thefts Disclosed.
Capt. Oyster made a formal eXplana-
ton Of the boards position in regard
! to the recent report of the school commit
| tee of the Board of Trade. He said also
that detectives had been sent out by
District officials to try to find out wheth-
er school janitors were stealing coal, but
| that no thefts had been discovered.
| A communication from Miss Myra
| Hendley, asking for the privilege of hold
| ing the annual meeting of the League
| for the Decoration OF the Public Schools
| in the Hubbard School February II, was
| referred to a committee
| The board acknowledged the receipt of
twenty new maps Of the United States,
sent by Fred bennett, commissioner of
the land office. Miss Robert Ossire
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| by letter that she had received six pic
lures for decorating the lower hall of her
school, the gift coming from the Deco
| rative Art Society.
The board discovered that the plans of
| the prospective Ivy City School in the pos
session of the Commissioners are different
| in some details from those in the hands
| of the board. The secretary was in
! structed to Straighten the matter out
| The board was invited to a tea in the Po-
tomac School next Tuesday Miss Beulah
Price. principal, being the person who
sent the note of invitation.
Changes in Teaching Force.
! follows:
Transfers:
Miss ]. c. Weston, teacher, fourth
grade, Wormley School to Phillips School
III. +. Wilson. teacher, third grade
Montgomery School to Wormley School.
Miss r. Il. Orme. teacher, third grade,
| Phillips School to Montgomery School
Miss I. " Lewis teacher; first grade,
| Douglass School to Payne School.
| Miss NJ. T. Sumner, teacher, first grade
Payne School to Douglass School.
! Miss r. r. Green, Grant School to
Weightman School
Miss c. III. Shipley, Weightman School
!! to Grant School.
Webster School.
Miss NJ. F. Robinson, Takoma School
to Monroe School.
Miss Adele Moody. Monroe School to
| Takoma School
Miss f. w. Jackson, Brookland School
to Hubbard School
Miss f. II. Matthews, Gales to Brook
, land School.
| Miss c. M. Dent, teacher, first grade
| Cook School to Ivy City School.
| Miss f. c. Butler, teacher. second grade
Bowen School to Cardoza School
Miss Jeanette Wagner, Webster to
Morse School.
Miss Ethel Browne, Madison to Webb
School
Mrs f. r. Boughton, Jefferson to Gales
| School.
Miss NJ. E. English, Pierce to Thomson
| School.
Mrs A. A. hewitt, Abbot to Morse
School.
Miss Mabel Wann Morse to Abbot
| School.
These Get Promotions.
Promotions:
Miss l. l.. Jordan. fifth to sixth grade
Blair to Pierce School.
Miss P. l.. Cover. fourth TO fifth grade
, Hamilton to Blair School
Miss B. f. Schneider, third to fourth
grade, Madison to Hamilton School
Miss F. d. Egbert, second to third
grade Blow to Madison School,
Miss II. Z. Bundick, first TO second
| grade Webb to Blow School.