The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-03
Fifth Grade to Be Opened
For First Time at
Oak Grove
NEW LAW RELATIVE
TO ENTERING AGE
One New Teacher in High School
Two New Boilers Installed in High
School Building-New Desks in
Grade and washington Street.


The public SCHOOLS viii open Tues
ia morning for the fall term. Miss
FaBnie X. Parson of Easthampton.
Mass, who succeeds Miss Bessie NJ.
Wood in the commercial department of
the high school, is the only new mem
ber OF the faculty.
fifth grade viii be opened in the
Oak Grove school for the first time to
relieve the congestion in the Canal
street school. This grade will be
taught by Miss Cola Martin of Towns
hend, who taught the fourth grade in
that school last year. The third and
fourth grades will be consolidated and
taught by Miss Edith Douglas Of Brat
tIeboro.
The school board has had some i'm
portant necessary improvements made.
including the installation of two new
boilers IN the basement of the HIGH
school building to replace the old ones.
They are of the sectional type and are
about one-third larger than the ones
taken out, the larger capacity being
made necessary by the utilization of
| more rooms than formerly. They were
| installed by J. Z. Rogers.
| In the high school building the fifth
| grade room has been equipped with
| new adjustable desks, made by the
| Readsboro Chair company. The Wash
| ington street primary school has been
| equipped with similar desks, and a few
| new desks have been placed in the Es-
| teyville school. A new set of black
| boards has been provided for the math-
ematics rooms of the high school All
| the rooms have been thoroughly clean
ed and renovated.
For many years the minimum age
lat which a child could enter school,
other than a kindergarten, has been
five years. Section A. of No. Ct, Acts
of 1915, reads in part as follows: . No
child under six years of age shall bc
received into any public school, except
a kindergarten, at the beginning of the
fall term unless such child shall be
come six years of age on or before the
first day of the next January; and
no child between the ages of six ant
eight years shall be received into
ipublie school after the beginning OF
the fall term without the consent Of
the superintendent. -
1t will he noted that the age fo1
admission has been raised from fv,
years to five years and eight months
Accordingly, children who have no
previously attended the Brattlebort
schools viii not be admitted to thu
first grades unless they are six or vii
: become six by Jan. l, 1916, and chill
dren viii not be admitted to the kin
: dergartens unless they are five or vii
become FIVE by the same date.
Children between the ages of six an,
, eight may be admitted after the begin
ming of the fall term only with the con
sent Of the superintendent. Parent
2 are urged to have their children i
l school from the first day. The frs
. day is occupied largely in organizin
a the schools, and, with the second day
4 regular work is expected to begin i
e all rooms. If pupils are absent tn
S first day, then work must be delaye
later in order to get them into thei
I places. Some parents have the mistal
V en- idea that the work of the first fe'
J. days, or weeks, does not matter; tina
e child can make it up. On the COZ
k trarv, the work of the first few day
f is of supreme Importance. The sui
n iects covered last year are recalled b
n brief reviews and questions in cor
n nection with advanced work. Fe
pupils, if any, can lose the first wee
or two of the term without their stan,
ing suffering thereby. Parents can a
much by having their children
school the first day and by insisting {
C. their regular and prompt attendant
thereafter.
The maximum age of compulsory a
re tendance remains l6 years, with pr
lc vision under certain conditions, f,
IN the excusing of pupils who are 15 yea
old.