The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-20
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

The Doe Run Board of Education is
just in receipt of letter from the
State Superintendent conveying the
glad tidings that the Doe Run High
School has been added to the list of
tirst-class schools. Fhe County Su-
perintendent wants to publicly con-
gratulate the Doe Run Board of Ed
ucation, Supt. Joyce, his able corps OF
teachers and all who had anything to
do with meeting requirements for
first.class approval. This makes the
ninth st. Francois county High School
designated as a high school of the
highest rank. In view of the fact
that many counties in the State do
not even have one first-class high
school, st. Francois county now en-
joys a most enviable distinction. The
following is the text Of the letter noti-
flying the school officials at Doe Run
of the approval of their shcool
II have examined the report Of my
high school inspector and am raising
your school to the rank of first-class
high school. This means that all the
high school work offered in your
school is approved.
II am pleased to know that you
have expended one thousand dollars
for library books and equipment. The
condition of your library has been
much improved since the school was
last inspected. | am pleased to know
that each Of the grades is supplied
with supplementary readers. l wish
to express my appreciation of the good
work being done by you and your su-
perintendent at Doe Rum"
Attention is directed to an announce
ment in another column of the next
County Teachers Examination to be
held at, the Pennington High School
building March Sc, next. For the
benefit of prospective applicants a
few facts regarding County Teachers
examinations are here set forth. APP
plicants may apply for first, second
and third grade certificates. Grades
held on valid third-grade certificate
may be transferred to new second
grade certificate provided the appli-
cant successfully passes an examina-
tion in algebra and literature in addi-
ton to the subjects in which grades
are held on third grade certificates;
and, provided further that an average
grade of S5 is maintained. Prospec-
tive applicants will, of course, under
stand that any grades held on third
grade certificates may be raised be-
fore being placed on second grade GER
tificates. Quite often applicants hold
ing third-grade certificates with av-
erage grades from 81 to "a come and
take the two additional subjects re-
quired and several subjects previously
taken but in which low grades are
held, thereby raising their average to
85 or better and securing a second
grade certificate. A grade certi-
fcate is valid anywhere in the State
of Missouri, and is, in fact, State
certificate. To secure a first-grade
applicants must be examined in all the
subjects required for a second-grade
certificate, and in addition thereto in
some branch of advanced history and
in some advanced science. All answer
papers written by applicants for first
grade certificates must be sent by the
County Superintendent to the State
Superintendent for grading. Three
examinations are held each year. For
the year 1920 the examinations will be
held on the following dates:
March Sc;
June AS;