Smyrna times., 1918-04-10
NEW RULES GOVERNING
TEACHERS OF DELAWARE
ADOPTED BY STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION RECENT MEETING
Matter of Pay, Holidays and Examina-
tions Outlined-Ooor Open for
Married Women to Teach

tions Outlined-Ooor Open for
Married Women to Teach
The State Board of Education has
adopted the following rules and regu-
lations which have the force of school
laws and are to be observed by all
concerned:
First-The following holidays, with
full pay to teachers. are hereby es-
tablished: Thanksgiving Day and the
day following; Christmas holidays,
including the day before Christmas
and New Years Day; Good Friday
and Easter Monday for all teachers
whose contracts call for a school year
Of nine or ten months. Such days as
Columbus Day, LincOln's Birthday,
Washington's Birthday, Arbor and
Labor and Bird Day, Memorial Day
and Flag Day are not school holidays
but special days set apart for a
specific purpose. Teachers are urged
to emphasize the Importance of these
days with appropriate exercises in the
schools.
Second. In case of illness during
the school year teacher shall be
allowed half pay for the first week,
full pay for the second and third
weeks, and half pay for the fourth
week. After four weeks no pay shall
be allowed. During the time a
teacher is i'll a substitute teacher
shall be provided for the school at the
expense of the local school board. The
salary of a qualified substitute shall
be 80 per centum of the regular teach
er s salary.
Third. Teachers shall receive full
pay for any length of time schools
may be closed on account of contagious
or infections diseases or for any other
reasons over which the teacher has no
control. The state board has also re-
quested it's secretary to inform teach
ecs and school officers that all schools
must remain open at least 140 days,
and all approved high schools $50
days.
Spring examinations for teachers
have been set as follows: New Castle
county, Saturday, April 6 beginning
$50 a. m., at School No. l. Sixth
and French streets, Wilmington; Kent
county, Dover high school; Sussex
county high schools at Seaford and
Georgetown.
Examinations will be given as fol-
lows: Limited elementary certificate,
reading, writing, spelling. geography,
U. S. history, arithmetic, constitu-
tions of United States and Delaware.
Limited second certiicate-grammar.
spelling, English and American litera.
ture, rhetoric and compositions, arith-
metic, algebra, plane geometry, school
management.
Examinations will also be held at
the same places as mentioned above
on April 27, with the following sub
jects:
Limited Elementary Certific ate
Drawing, grammar. physiology and
hygiene, primary schools, school man
agement, nature study, agriculture.
Limited Secondary Cetrifcate-U.
S. history, general history. constitu.
tions, U. S. and Delaware, hygiene,
physics, physical geography, zoology,
or botany or chemistry.
Secondary methods of teaching
Examinations will also be held fol
colored teachers on April 20 at the
following places-New Castle county
Howard high school, Orange street
above Twelfth, Wilmington; Ken
county, Capital school building, Dover
Sussex county, public school, Green
wood. The examinations for the col
ored teachers will include the Limited
elementary secondary certificate a
taken by the white teachers on Apri
6.
1t is desired by the state commits
sioner of education, Arthur R Spaid
as well as the county superintendents
that graduates of high schools for tn
present year contemplating teaching
to come up for the examinations Sc
for this month. Any person now sub
stituting for a regular teacher mus
take the examination in April or the
will not be allowed to teach an
longer.
Married women whose househol
duties will permit will be welcome t
teach in the Delaware schools mex
year, especially those who have ha
college or normal school training
This request is made because of tn
feeling that there will be a shortag
of teachers next year. They will, {
course, be compelled to take the e2
aminations and could attend the sun
mer schools to refresh themselves Q
branches in which they may have nc
studied up on for several years.