The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
IMPORTANT
Regulations Governing the Excusing
Of High School Students for Farm


! Work.
/. Any high school boy who's,
school record Is such as to indicate
that he would be able TO complete the
year without condition may be excused
10 work on the farm of his father oil
guardian. Such student, upon the
presentation of certificate signed BY
the Commissioner Of Education indi.
eating that he was regularly employ.
ed, shall be graduated or admitted
without condition TO an advanced class
at the opening of the next school year.
Proper certificates will be issued to
those wishing TO enter college. This
shall also apply to girls whose SER
vices may be required in the farm
home.
q High school students whose work
has not been such as to indicate that
they will complete the year without
condition may also be excused, but
such students must be required to suf-
fer the same conditions that they
would had they continued in school
throughout the year. They cannot be
graduated or received in advanced
classes next fall without condition in
the subjects in which they are now de-
ficient.
3. High school students may If
they receive regular employment
from persons other than their par
ents or guardians be excused, subject
to the conditions stated in Cd and (2).
4. 1t will be necessary for high
school principals and the superintend-
ent to render statement to the Com
missioner of Education as to the
character and service rendered by the
students. The principal of the school
may furnish the County Agent the
names of such boys and girls as desire
work upon farms.
5. Subject to the provisions of the
attendance law, pupils in the gram
mar grades may be treated the same
as students in the high schools.
6. 1t is suggested that in some
communities schools can be maintain
ed for single session each day by be-
ginning school at an earlier hour and
closing at such time as will allow
the children to be available for work
at home during the afternoon. Such
arrangements should be made by the
and the children
should be given full credit for school
work so pursued.
Z. Colleges governed by the New
England College Entrance Board and
Dartmouth College will doubtless re-
ceive without conditions such high
school seniors as may now leave
school for work upon farms, provided
the work on the farm is regular and
by the State Board Of Edu-
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such that the principal of the school
feels justified in certifying that he is
to take up college work. In
order that the State Board of Educa-
lion may approve the farm work of
students intending to enter college, a
blank form for recording such work
will shortly be forwarded TO each high
school principal. The names of stu
lents who are to enter college next
year and who intend to leave school
this spring for the purposes named
above should be sent to the Commits
sioner Of Education together with the
name of the institution which each
student intends to enter. Upon re-
ceipt Of these names the Commission
or will communicate at once with each
institution reported in order that
here may be no misunderstanding
relative to the acceptance of each STU
dent by his chosen college next fall.