The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-30

with certain powers enumerated. The
town system of schools is maint aimed
The duties of the local school direc-
tors shall be to have the care of the
school property of the town and the
management of its schools. keep the
schoolhouses suitably repaired and in
sured and have authority to desig
nate the schools which shall be at
tended by the various pupils, subject
to the approval of the union superin-
tendents and subject to the provisions
| of the act, employ teachers and fix
their compensation, draw orders, etc.
School Unions
The state board shall arrange the
towns into school unions which shall
be designated by number and each
town shall either by itself or in con
! junction with another or others. be in
Guided within . union. School union
committees shall elect a superintendent.
| Supervisors shall act under the direc-
tion of the commissioner of education,
their work shall not be restricted to
any particular section and their field
of oversight shall be frequently
lchanged, cooperate with union super
intendents and supplement their work
spend their time in schools, assist
teachers and demonstrate proper meth
: DDS of instruction, etc.
Every town shall have a competent
number of public schools, and so 10
, Gated as to afford convenient instruc
tion to youth, this wording following
the constitution.
Kindergartens mean schools into
which children five years of age an,
younger may be received; elementary
, schools have 4 siX-year course. adapt
ed to the needs OF pupils between
and u years of age; secondary, 10 in
l clude junior and senior high schools
Among other things the board shall in
t clude such subjects in elementar-
t schools as in their judgment are ap
: propriate to the needs Of the pupil
= in the several communities. The stat
board may relocate or consolidate 81
; ementarv schools and may cstabhs
e centralized schools in rural sections, a
/ the interests of convenience and eff
: cheney may require, and in so dom
IL the state board may disregard tow
: boundaries, ''hut in the exercise O
$ the power given in this section tn
5 constitutional requirements as to con
y potency in number and convenienc
$ shall be observed.
Junior and Senior High Schools.
.. Junior high schools shall be mail
a tanned III every town, unless by n
;. rangement. an academy in Il town
. in effect made the public high schot
where the number of secondary scho'
~ pupils to be conveniently accommoda
ed shall reasonably warrant ii; aeat
- envy subject TO approval Of stat
- board; where necessary, two yea
u junior high school to be given in a
- elementary school as equivalent.
= Central and readily accessible Sc
% ior high schools artlculating direct
with all neighhoring junior hig
u schools, number and location and T
gion served determined by state boar
.93 Four years junior courses and tN
% years senior courses for youths OF
"a to 10 fitting for college, etc.
III Vocational education courses amor
Sc other things appropriate to the Nee
5 and environment of the particuli
d school.
d. School term at least SO weeks in
rs school year. School age to IS.
a truant officers, such supervision beil
k, under direction of superintendent al
nd his agent; school discipline, inelud
a corporal punishment
no Transportation or board of pupil
ed be paid by state AT present tin