The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-04-13

CLOSING OF PARISH SCHOOLS.

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Session to be Limited to Seven ant
one-HaIf Months, as Planned
Private or Summer School Worl
Not to Count in Classification O
Students.
supt. J. L. Rusca has addressed
ing following letter to the public
school teachers of Ascension parish
relative to their duties in connection
with the approaching termination o1
the school session.:
! Dear Teacher:
Your school will close at the ex.
plratlon OF seven and one-half
nlonths session as planned by the
parlsh school board for the present
scnool year. To this time must be
auaed the days which you have lost
ana winch are due to be made up at
the end of the session. In all cases
where the community supplies the
money necessary to continue the
| scnool Two weeks or month or
longer, the work of the school NAV
50 on, but will continue to be under
the supervision of the school board
ana the superintendent. The work
done during this time will be official
ana binding on all concerned. and
VIII count the same as though the
| scnool board were supplying the
| funds.
in all cases classifications will be
made during the last days of school
and will be final, and such records
or standing of pupils will not be
altered at the opening of another
school session as a result of a month
or two Of private school work,
| experience has demonstrated that the
effort to reconsider pupils or re-
grade them in the fall out of consid-
Grafton of a little private school
work leads to an unnecessary amount
of work at the opening of school
and to dissatisfaction and confusion.
IL invites careless work during the
session, because some expect that
they can shirk the work then and
attend short private school during
the summer and later be promoted.
It sometimes happens that as a con
slderation for the tuition fee paid
the teacher, both teacher and pa
tron feel that the child ought to
be promoted, and if promoted it
means this: tfat the child has ac-
comp1shed in a month or two what
lt.has failed to accomplish in the en-
tire session, which III most cases is
unreasonable to expect.
With q u, j
mer school work under trained or
licensed teachers is profitable and
pupils should be encouraged to at
tend, but it should be made clear to
all that such work will have no eff
feet on their standing in the school
as shown by the records on file.
In the case of the high school,
grades in the four high schools of |
the parish, on account of the small |
er number of students, it is practi-
cal and along the line Of the best I
thought of school men to permit a |
student being promoted who makes
the required general average, and
being conditioned in one or two sub
Jects in which the grade scored has
been below a certain standard, this
condition to be worked off at any
time before graduation This means
that a pupil SO conditioned will |
his or her knowledge in
that subject or subjects and ask for
an examination when prepared The
rules laid down in the high school re-
port booklets must be adhered to
by principals and high school teach
ers, and no one has any authority to
alter these rules. We must have un-
lformity of work and standards and
values in these schools.
Every school register must be prop
erly filled in, and the classification
Of every pupil enrolled at any time
during the year must be noted in
the register in the proper column.
Ihe front pages are arranged for
that purpose. shall ask every prin-
cipal of every school to also enclose
in the register a sheet or sheets of
paper which shall contain the entire
of every grade in the
school, which shall be the official
record for the session of 1912-13.
The following will be required be-
fore the last warrant will be issued to
any teacher:
1. Filing Of regular monthly report
card, properly filled in and signed
by trustee, stating the number Of
dayGJtaught and the time which was
due and which has been made up
2. Filing with trustees and super
intendent itemized, duplicate state
nents showing all moneys. received
by the principal for the school and
all moneys disbursed.
8. The building must be left clean
and in order and securely locked
where possible, and keys must be 4
turned over to the trustees.
4. All library books must be gath
cred, put in order and case locked