The Butler weekly times., 1915-12-02
Butler Public Schools.

/ the. children IN the graQeS. IHo
same system has been used in the
High School for some years and
has proven entirely satisfactory.
The letters which will be used are
+, S, NJ, | and F. A grade Of E
means that the child has been do
ing excellent work. A grade of
S means that he is doing superior
work and that he ranks in the up
per fourth of his class. A grade
of NJ means that the child is do
ing average work. As rule,
about half of the class receive
this grade. A grade Of / signifies
that the pupil is doing poor work.
A grade Of F denotes that the -pu-
pill is failing. hope that all par
ents will note well the grades that
his child is making, and, if he is
doing poor or failing work, they
will seek the cause and the rem
edy.
This fall the National System of
Scholarship and Attendance Rec
ords was introduced. A filing
cabinet in which to keep the rec
ords was purchased. Enrolment
cards are filled out in duplicate,
one to be kept by the teacher and
the other by the superintendent.
These cards give all necessary in
formation about the pupil! Each
pupils record of scholarship and
attendance is kept on a separate
sheet of paper. These sheets are
filed in the superintendent Of
flee at the end of the year. This
enables the superintendent to
keep a complete record Of each
pupil and to find out all about
the pupils record upon a mo-
ment's notice. If you are at the
superintendent s office, we invite
you to inspect the records. No
better system of records is known.
The enrolment is unusually
large. In the High School, the
enrolment is 227. Of this num-
Der lO8 are tuition pupils. This
is the largest number the High
School has ever enrolled and it
is also the largest number Of tut
tion pupils. For the past month
the per cent Of attendance was
97.2. The work is being efficient
ly done in every room. The
spirit of the school is good. Each
pupil seems determ ned to COM
plete the work Of his grade. So
far we have lost only Z pupils.
The student government is fully
coming up to our expectations.
We invite you to visit the school.
The work done in the grades
is excellent. There is an efficient
teacher in every room. Room 3
in the Franklin and room 8 in the
Webster schools have been sup
piled with good maps of Europe
and of North America and also
with globes. These are a great
help in teaching geography and
history. Books have been pur-
chased that will enable the grads
to do the work in history recon-
mended by the National Educa-
tional Association. Rooms 8 and
4 in the Webster School and
room 3 in the Franklin School
have been supplied with two
dictionaries each. These dirtion-
aries enables the pupils to do bet
ter work. The introduction of
| the history in all the grades is
an advance movement. The spirit
of the pupils in the grades is
splendid. The pupils are happy
and loyal to their school. They
lseem to realize that the school Is
I'theirs and that they. are respone
isible for Is good name. The ath-
l1etics in the grades have helped
| in creating this feeling. We in
lvite oil patrons to visit the ward
schools.
I The schools will be dismissed
for the Christmas vacation on
1Thursday SftAfnoon Of Decem-
fber 8 he Ation wiz last
ftiH NopdAI, January 1916.