The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-12-23
Miss Lillian E. FIemmiug, Former Fll
ton Teacher, Tells Of the Schools
in North Dakota.

! mOnCnS Term. In many OF Lne
rural districts it is divided into a
fall and spring term. So as to
have vacation during January
and February, which are usually
cold months. Schools closing in
June, leaving July for vacation
again. The pupils are. classified
into s grades. After passing the
9Th, they are allowed to enter
High School. In passing a grade
pupils are required to complete
more than one set Of readers in
their grade. Every month the
pupils beginning with 3rd grade
must take a written examination
on the subjects in his grade.
These questions are made out at
the State Department, and sent
to the County Superintendent,
who sends them to the teacher,
at the end of the month. The
pupils have one day for examina-
ton. The State has mapped out
a course of study and by follow
ing that closely, it greatly assists
the pupils in the examination
work, as the questions are made
out along that course. After ex-
animation, the teacher corrects
papers, and sends the percent
age that each child has made in
the subjects in his respective
grades to the County Superin-
tendent, and the pupils marks
are kept on file at his Office.
The teacher records the percent
age in the Term Report and
keeps all the papers on file, At
the end of each month, the
teacher reports to the County
Superintendent if there are any
children between the ages of 8
and Is in the district not in at
tendance at any school.
The 8th Grade have three fiual
examinations during the term
in, December, March and May
at which time they pass, or try
to pass, the different branches
ten subjects. They must aver
age rs per cent. to receive an 9Th
grade certificate. The subjects
are Reading, Writing, Spelling,
U. S. History, Physiology, Hy-
giene, Geography, Agriculture,
Civics, Grammar, and Arithme-
tic.
On each subject there are To-
questions and they may select
only eight to write on. At the
top of the paper it says answer
any eight questions" Each
month the grades from the 3rd
up, commit a poem. The course
of study gives the names of the
poems for the different grades.
On reading they are required to
give the poem they have studied.
Next Marcia new law goes in
to effect concerning final exami-
nations. First, there shall only
be two final examinations during
the school year coming in March
and May. Each subject shall
have 10 questions and applicant
must write on all the questions.
80 minutes is allowed for each
subject of 10 questions. Their
credit in writing shall be based
on the writing on all their papers
and not on writing as a subject
in itself.
Previous to the time for exami
nation, the teacher writes for the
number of slips of all questions
needed for the class, and these
each subject in a sealed envelope
is sent to the teacher in time for
the examination. The envelope
containing the instructions is not
sealed. When the class is in the
room and the time has arrived to
begin the teacher opens the en-
velope and distributes the papers
to the members of the class. The
class now has Thursday and Fri
day, butthe new law gives them
8 days for the examination.
After the teacher has looked
over the papers she makes a rec
ord of the percentage on the diff
ferent subjects of each applicant
and mails with their papers to
the County Supt, After he has