The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-08-29
SCHOOL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BY SUPT. J. P. WOMACk
REGULATIONS GOVERNING PU
Pills ATTENDING THE CON-
WAY SCHOOLS.

Supt. J. p. Womack today issued
the following announcement of regu-
| iat'ons governing pupils attending the
Conway public school during the next
| session:
All the grades except the first will
have full day sessions.
The school day will begin at S:35
instead of 9, as formerly. The build
ing will be opened at 8:15, when the
| teachers will be in their rooms ready
for work. There will be 10 minutes
for chapel; general chapel Mondays
and Thursdays, and room exercises
the other three.
No lettering or playing on the cam
pus before school. Pupils will go di-
rectly to their rooms and take up
their work of preparation.
No pupil living within the corpor-
ate limits should leave home before
the first bell. Those living within
four to eight blocks of the building
should start from the house at the
second bell; that will give them 20
minutes to get to their rooms.
a reasonable time will be allowed
fol play after school. We are hoping
'oou to have playground facilities for
every child in school. If we are not
much mistaken, the good women of
/ the S. |. A. will help us in this direc-
ton.
The Telephone-The telephone is
for the superintendent use exclu-
sively. If you have important busi-
ness with him, call him. But don't
ask him to call others to the tele-
phone, for he will not do it. He will
deliver important messages when he
has time to do so, but such work is
at the expense of the school work and
must be reduced to minimum. Pu-
pills will not be allowed to use the
telephone except in extreme cases.
Observation-Disclosures promotion
will be granted whenever anybody is
read! for it. If an ambitious boy or
girl forgcs ahead and masters the
work between his class and the one
ahead of him, he will be promoted
then and there And when class, or
section of a class, finishes the work of
its grade, it will go right on into the
work of the next class. Nobody will
be held back nor dragged ahead over
work that he does not know. If he
gets ahead of his class, he will be
sent on; if he falls behind, he will be
dropped into the next section. Moth
ing is fixed; a pupils standing de-
pends entirely on his work.
Seventh grade pupils who pass on
either U. S. history, grammar, or
arithmetic, will be allowed to take up
the corresponding study with the
eighth grade, retaining their place in
the seventh grade until all work in it
has been finished.
Library. use of the library
will be strictly regulated Pupils will
do all their reading of library books
under supervision. Books will be let
out at stated times, but the pupils will
be required to give such account of
the book as will show they have mas
tered it.
Parents who wish us to do so will
be furnished written statement of
their children's needs This is to safe
guard them against waste of tablets,
books, etc. Children spend three to 10
times as much as is necessary for tab
let's, pencils, etc.
Five per cent is deducted from the
monthly grade for every lesson miss
ed. When a pupil is obliged to miss
a lesson, the teacher will help him
make it up on his return; but the
teacher is under no obligation to make
up work when pupils miss from in
difference or choice. They are paid
to do their work once, not twice.