The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-10-03
Board of Regents Pass
es Resolution De-
filming Scope
NOACADEMYWO
Courses of Study Must Be
Only to Prepare for
Teaching

The Regents of Education of the
state. anc particularly A. E. Hitch
cock, the Mitchell member, have been
considering for a number of wears
the proper scope of each of the state
institutions. Some specific legisla-
tlon has been enacted by the board
relating to the Normal schools. The
legislature of 1911 amended the
school laws to the n that the Nor
NAL schools might be brought into
closer touch with the common schools
of the state (Chapter 1876, Session
Laws) providing for courses leading
TO the second, first and state grade
teachers certificates. Revised cours-
es OF study We're adopted, acting in
harmony with State superintendent
Lawrence. In these courses of study
IL was designed to elil innate academic
instruction leading to general high
school or college preparatory courses
without the teaching profession being
i'm view.
Heretofore the general scope of
these normal schools has beer to pro-
vide Il school of general instruction
as indicated in a recent ADVERTISE
ment of one of these institutions
reading as follows:
"Practically all subjects from the
kindergarten to the last two years in
college are taught in this school.
Students are permitted to take any
subjects they are qualified to take;
hence they a frame any course of
study desired. Attention is given to
fitting students for any course in
college, and to giving them the first
two years in college work"
The board to more fully explain it's
position at a meeting at Huron, Sep
TENDER 10th, 1873, adopted this reso-
luton:
Resolved, that whereas existing
conditions are such that about nine
ty-three per cent of the pupils of the
public schools who enroll in the pri-
mary grade do not enter high school,
but drop out of school life altogether
at or before completing the Sth grade
and
whereas the principal industries
of the state are founded upon the
products of the farm, and farm life,
and
"Whereas there is an urgent de-
mand from the tax payers of the
state that the courses of study. and
the character OF instruction in the
common schools conform in a more
practical way to meeting the needs of
the agricultural interests of the state
and the needs of the number of citi-
Gems who can have nc school training
above the Sth grade, and
Whereas the principal purpose of
establishing and maintaining the nor
NAL schools of the state, is to train
persons to instruct in the common
schools,
~'Therefore, be it resolved: That
the administration of the various
Normal schools of the state be so
directed that more effective results
be obtained in properly training
young men and young women for
teachers in the m schools of
the state; that more emphasis be
placed upon a thorough training in
branches of study required to be
taught in the common schools of the
state within the first eight grades,
and in those branches and subjects
required in an examination by the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction for first and second grade
certificates; that no solicitation be
made by public advertising or pri-
vate Inducements TO encourage pupils
to attend these schools for the pur-
pose of preparing for college, or TAX
ing parts of college courses without
having in gviewh the teachers pro
fession; that the schools shall not
offer couI5es of study Irregular or OPP
tional) which have in view competi-
tion with the high schools and colleg-
es of the state, except hat pupils
, who reside at locations remote from
high schools, and who desire to pre-
pare for teaching may take prepare
tory branches; hat special atten-
ton be given to effective instruction
in the following subjects: Home &C.
onomics, manual training, state gov
ernment. civic duty, morality, ele-
ments of agriculture. problems OF
rural life, sex hygiene. laws of
health, sanitation, ventilation, light
ing and heating