Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-10-08
Certificates and Contracts.


Certificates and Contracts.
Sec 87.-"No teacher shall be entitled to,
or receive, any compensation for the time ne
or she teaches in any public school without
certificate valid or in force for such time in
the county where such school is taught, except
that if teachers certificate shall expire by
its own limitation within six weeks OF the
close of the term, such teacher may finish such
term without denomination or renewal OF his
or her certificate.
Sec. SIT shall be the duty of the trus-
tees of each district: (a). To employ teachers
on written contract, but before such contract
can be legally signed it shall be the duty OF
the teacher to exhibit his her certificate or
permit to the Board of Trustees, and it shall
be the duty Of the trustees to file copy OF
such contract with the County Superintendent. :
(e). 1.-THE trustees shall have power to
discharge any teacher for the neglect of duty,
or for any cause that, in their opinion, renders
the services of such teacher Improbable to
the district; but no teacher shall be discharg-
ed before the end of his or her term without
reasonable hearing
Records and Reports.
School Law Sections 85 and SO.
l. Teachers must be furnished with
school register for the purpose of registering
the names of their pupils and their daily at
tendance at school. Such record must be kept
in ink and all entries made neatly as pos
sble.''
g. Teachers must also be furnished with
term report blanks by the trustees which
blanks must be filled out at the end Of the
term and one sent to the County Superintend-
ent and the other filed with the Clerk of the
Board No teacher shall be allowed an order
in excess of so per cent. of his or her salary
until said report is made out and transmitted.
8. Monthly Reports. See Compulsory Ed
ucation.
4. Every teacher shall make such other
reports as may be required by the State Super
intendent, County Superintendent, Board of
Trustees, or by the Probation Officer.
Compulsory Education.
Sec. 14S-''It shall be the duty of the Clerk
Of the Board of Trustees of each district, on or
before the third Monday in September, to fur
nish or cause to be furnished to the head teach
er of the schools in his district list of all
the children in the school district between the
ages of eight ~ and eighteen Q8)years, said
list to be taken from the report Of the school s
census marshal for the current year.
teacher of each district to check or cause to be
checked the enrolment of the school against
the report furnished by the clerk aforesaid,
and to report to the county superintendent all
pupil not in attendance who are within the
ages of eight ~ and eighteen Q8) and who
have no release from school,
.sAt the beginning of each month thereafter
it shall be the duty of such head teacher to
A. pfopd tho
of all children between eight ~ and eighteen
(l8) not bearing releases who fail to attend
school during the preceding month"; 1t shall
be the duty of the County Superintendent to
refuse to countersign the teachers warrant
until such reports are made as herein provided
Provided, that districts having Superintend-
ent of Schools shall not report to the County
Superintendent but shall proceed through their
District Superintendent in the same manner as
herein provided for County Superintendent.
When pupils are released notice signed by
the County Superintendent Probation Officer
is sent to the teacher given to the parents
to hand to the teacher. Until you receive
such notice of release, continue to report pu-
pills absent.
While reports must always be made at the
end of the month Gf you have no absence to
report, send statement to that effect), if there
is anything to report, do not wait that long
For instances, we have had where chill
dren were kept out of school most of the month
but always sent the last week so that your re
ports would show them back in school and nj
trouble could be made for them. If you have
case anything like this, send word confident
~ to the Probation Officer before the end OF
the first week of the new month. Do not wait