Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-14
TO DISCONTINUE
DETERMINATIONS
School Board Adopts New Reg
ulationS For Central and
Technical High Schools

examinations at the Central and
Technical High Schools are a thing
of the past. Not that the teachers are
so optimistic as to think that re-
exams will be unnecessary. but be-
cause of a recent ruling of the School
Board. When a pupil receives a
condition" it will have to be re-
moved by repeating the subject, or
else automatically removed by salts
factory work in the advanced class.
Another sweeping change affecting
High School lads and lassies will be
the adoption of the unit system for
graduation. Sixteen units of work at
either High School will entitle a pupil
to graduate. A unit consists of five
periods of recitation a week through
one year. Higher standards of pro-
motion are also set in the raising of
the passing mark from 60 to 20 per
cent. These innovations will be intro
duced next month, and are in keeping
with the standards of cities larger
than Harrisburg. The untiring efforts
of Superintendent +. L. Downes and
the High School principals have made
these changes possible.
Adopt Resolutions
The resolutions adopted by the
S1iOOi DOdiu are DIS IOllOWS. Inc
minimum standard for promotion in
the ninth grade shall be SO per cent.
and in the High Schools, after Feb
ruary 1, 1916, 20 per cent In the
ninth grade the final mark shall be
an average of the results of the ex-
animation and class record for the
year. In determining the final term
work IN the High Schools, the term
examination shall count one-fourth
and the class record three fourths.
Pupils in the High Schools exam
lned who attain a standing of 20 per
cent. or more in each study examined,
snail be promoted to the next higher
class, but If the standing of said
pupils attained in such examinations
rs less than 20 in one or more studies.
they shall be conditioned or dropped
at the discretion of the principal. A
student conditioned in a subject may
continue with a more advanced class
In the same subject, and the condition
may be removed automatically by
satisfactory work with the advanced
class. A student dropped in a sub
Ject must repeat the subject satisfac-
torily before obtaining credit therefor.
ThoSe who have received a mark
below 40 per cent. and who therefore.
nave not passed, shall be styled con
ditioned" or failed" and marked Il.
The completing of 16 units of work
WIN also entltle the pupil to gradua-
ton. Graduation by units presup-
poses that the student shall have pur-
sued and, in the main, completed one
OF the regular four-year High School
courses.
No student in the Central High
School may be graduated under the
unit system who shall not have com
pleted satisfactorily at least three
units in English, two in q language
other than English. two in mathe-
matics, one in science and one in his
tory. In the commercial course at
least four additional units in book
keeping, stenography and typewrit-
ing will be required.
In the Technical High School the
unit equivalents must be selected
from one of the prescribed courses
and at least three units of English
and three units OF shop work viii he
required" w