, 1911-09-06

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dren coming to the island from places where
there is no obligation. to attend school OF
where such obligation is limited, aud who
therefore often come here quite ignorant,
should be admitted IN a school at any TIME
of the year to the Inconvenience Of the
school work. They should wait till the com
menrement of n half year.
Possibly also the rule may be OF some
significance in another way, a. the planters
may in future during the time Of the cotton
picking procure the help of children from
the surrounding islands and profit largely
by the work Of the children if they are not
bound to attend school from the day they
arrive in st. Clolx For the children 1t Is OF
no consequence whether tier obligation to
attend school begins II couple OF months
earlier or later, while they have an opportu-
nity to get good employment and their work
Will perhap, be Of no inconslderable lmPot-
lance at those times of the year when It is
difficult to secure a sufficient labour force.
1t is remarked, that according to persons
yersed in the matter, cotton picking is not
hard labour and besides IS lighter for chIl-
drtn than for grown persons, a. the children.
unlike the adults are net compelled to work
in a STOPPING posture.
The permission ought to be refused when
the chlld's road to school Will become, by
such tnnsfcrence, 50 long that It can he
seen beforehand that regular attendance Will
become difficult or impossible
al 5.
As the school year, both for town and
country, will begin ON the lat of April, the
lists must be taken mp in February, not, ms
now in August and November.
The amounts Of the fines remain uuchaug-
I'd.
nd s &.
Similar, but more stringent, provisions are
contained in the above named English law.
In future it viii be difficult for parents to
get work for their school bound chtld during
school time, and the consequence OF that
again Will be that the chlldron viii attend
more regularly than now. Cn the year 1907
each child in the communal schools was absent
on the average about 10 days out of every 100
school days, in one Of the country schools
about 30 days, aud as a large number Of the
pupils were absent only q few days, It follow,
IN reality that very many children were alb
sent more often than they were present, and
this mainly because they were ut work for
payment.
The fine proposed for transgressiou is, in
proportion to tie fines fixed IN the existing
Ordinance. very low.
Parents and children must be accustomed
to taking care Of certificates and ought not
to be at liberty to give the teachers uune-
cea4aly trouble IN issuing them; 1t Is there
fore proposed that the tcachcr SHAH, in Ger
tam cases, be pad for issuing them.
al 7.
The amounts of the fines remain Gnchaug-
cd.
al S 9.
In doubtful cases the teachers both in the
communal and in the private schools, must
be under obligation to apply to a physician.
That the public physicians issue the ccrti-
ficates gratis for the pupils ~ the communal
schools is in accordance with what is fixed
in s 6 Of the Ordinance now IN force.
ad : 10.
According to the existing Ordinance the
School Board can make report to the Police.
master concerning trnnsgre,sions of the Or.
dinuuce for which fines are 70 be adjudgcd,
but this is not sufficient; The Bonrd must be
bouad to make such report. Otherwise, for
example, the employers and heads Of houses
who. in consequence of the reports from the
Board, might be fined, could perhaps feel
themselves to be unjustly treated by the
Board, mud think that there might first baye
been given them notice privately; but if the