Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-17
INACCURACIES
new SYSTEMS
Prizes Given by Richardson & Monks
and c. D. Simonds to Encourage
Attendance Of Pupils at School
STARTS HOME CREDIT" SYSTEM
Miss Moore, County School Superinten-
dent, Would Improve Schools

with the opening OF the SCHOOLS
of Boundary county, Superintendent
Of Schools Miss Margaret Moore is
being kept busy, early and late,
effecting a new organization and put
ting into operation new systems that
will certainly have a tendency to
i crease the efficiency of Boundary
county's schools.
Along this line Miss Moore had the
following to say this morning in an
interview with the Herald:
THE schools of Boundary county
have opened with an enrolment of
nearly 1000 pupils and with 40
teachers in charge. Many of these
pupils are living from two to five
miles, and even farther, from school.
But in every case the school boards
ere generously extending help to
children who are so handicapped.
Even with this help, however,
many pupils will find it difficult to
attend school every day during the
winter season. In consideration of
the difficulties under which these pu-
pills labor we are going to help
them by offering two prizes as an
incentive to further effort on their
part
The first prize will be given to
the rural school having the highest
per cent of attendance for a nine
months term. This prize will be
sixteen foot slide, valued at $50 for
Use on the Fairgrounds. 1t can be
used by twenty or more children con-
tinuously and is a piece Of appar-
atus much appreciated by the chill
dren. 1t is found on all we'll
equipped play grounds. This hand
some prize has been generously do
mated by the Richardson & Monks
Hardware Store.
For the schools having seven
months term a prize will be given
by Simonds' drug store to the school
having the highest per cent of at
tendance for the term. This SPLEEN
did prize will be set of indoor gym
nasium apparatus consisting of
swings, rings and Indian clubs. 1t
can be set up outside on the play
ground and can be used there during
the finer weather to better advan-
tage than inside. The swings and
rings will give the boys a fine oppor-
tunity to do athletic stunts while the
girls will enjoy learning to use the
Indian clubs.
The rural schools will take in all
the schools in the county with the
exception of those in Independent
School District No. 4, or the Bonners
Ferry town schools. Those schools
having more than one room will
take the average attendance of the
school for each month and the teach
er will send in the reports monthly
showing the percent Of attendance
The name of pupils who have been
neither tardy or absent VIII be sent
in at the same time.
The names of the nine month and
seven month schools having the high
est percent of attendance will be pub
lished each month in the Bonners
Ferry Herald with the names of the
pupils who have neither been tardy
or absent. The prizes will be award
ed at the close of each term.
We think that the state system of
''home credits" we are introducing
into the schools this year will also
encourage the boys and girls to at
tend school regularly. By this sys-
tenn the industrious pupil will receive
credit for all work done at home
and when a pupil has done a month
ly unit of work, or 20 hours, five per
cent is added to the average grade in
all his studies for the month. No
credit is given for less than 10
hours of work a school month and i
is presumed that no pupil will re-
ceive credit for more than 80 hours
a month.
Work in at least four different
divisions must be done each month
in order to obtain home credits.
These divisions are: Ethics, home
duties, health, community welfare,
science, self culture, and manual
training. The pupil gets new blank
each month and takes it home. HIS
parents supervise the work done and
see that the proper daily entries are
made and sign the record at the end
of the month.
This work is optional with the
pupils. They should consider their
ability and the opportunity they
have to do the work before taking