The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-09
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profit by making an early call at
this office and thus get in touch
with the plans of the office. We
want to see every teacher as often
as we can, especially the new
teachers.
Many of our Bon Homme coun-
ty teachers have spent the vaca-
ton months visiting the Exposi-
ton and other points of interest
on the Pacific coast. Good for
J them. We know they will take
back to their schools a fund of in.
formation that will be of use to
their pupils.
There is supposed to be a copy
of the South Dakota school laws in
every school library in the county.
Teachers should read this law &C.
casionally and thus make them
selves familiar with its provisions.
One thing that comes up frequent
ly is the matter of holidays. Our
law provides for four school holi-
idays, viz, Thanksgiving, Christ
mas, Decoration Day, and Inde-
pendence Day. The local board
has authority to declare any school
day a holiday for the school If oc.
casion seems to demand it.
The eighth grade diplomas have
all been mailed out to the gradu-
ates during the past week, with
the exception of those who are con-
ditioned. These will be delivered
when the pupils have removed the
conditions imposed upon them,
which in every case is that the pu-
pill must satisfactorily pass the first
nine weeks of the ninth grade work.
The manuscripts of both the sew
enth and eighth grades are on file
in this Office and are open to in
spection for the pupils personally
interested.
There is an editorial in the Sep
tember number of The Ladies'
Home Journal on the subject of
Education that should be read by
every father Of children. Lest
some of our readers will not have
an opportunity to read this Jour-
pal we are taking the liberty of
copying a part Of the article into
Cur school notes as follows: "a
man will take definite pains to
look over Che entire automobile
market and investigate the points
of quality in different makes of
cars. He will talk to his. friends;
read literature by the ream; per-
sonally visit garages and autcmo.
bile sales rooms. He will go to
the same trouble if his tastes lead
him to cattle, poultry, dogs or
horses. So it isn't that he is too
busy to investigate his child's
school. He just Won't do it. Yet
any sane man knows that the
schooling of his child is of vastly
more Importance than what kind
OF a a or horse he will buy"
At this time Of the year there is
always the question of legal text
books for schools. The books
adopted in July 1912 are still the
legal books for this county and
they will remain the regular text
books until July 1917, when GER
tain changes may be deemed ad-
visable. For the benefit of the
public we n giving our readers
this list of books: The Arnold
Primer, for beginners First, Sec
and and Third Readers from the
Stepping Stones Series Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth Readers by Judson
g Bender ; Seventh and Eighth
Readers in The Standard Classics ;
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Oral, Elementary and Complete
Arithmetics by Entworth and
Smith; Descriptive Speller by Al
ton /: Primary and Advanced School
History, by Mace !; Introductory
Language by Reed Graded Les.
sons and Higher Grammar by
Reed & kellogg Introductory and
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