The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-08-19
Canon City Public
Schools Term '@-21

School Announcements and Calendar.
The public schools of Canon City
will open Tuesday, September Z, 1920.
Registration for high school students
in the North Side high school will be
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sep
tember 3. 8 and 4. 1920. Registration
for the junion high, South Side, will
be Friday and Saturday. September 3
and 4, 1920.
All teachers of the district will meet
at the Washington school, Seventh
street and Macon avenue. on Monday.
September 6. at o'clock p. m. This
meeting is for the purpose of having
the teachers get acquainted with each
other and with members of the Board
of Education general outline of
the plan of work for the year will be
given by the superintendent.
Holidays for the Year.
Monday, September 6, Labor day;
Thursday and Friday. November and
s. State Teachers Association at
Pueblo and Denver; Thursday and
Friday, November 25 and 26, Thanks
giving vacation; Christmas holidays
beginning Friday December "a. and
resuming school work on Monday.
January 8. 1921; Washington's birth
dag. Tuesday, February %. 1921;
spring vacation beginning Friday,
March 25. and school resuming work
on Monday. April 4. First semester
ends Friday, January IA; second se-
mester begins Monday, January II.
School closes Friday, May 81. 1921.
Explanation Concerning Holidays.
Teachers will receive full pay for
Labor day. September 6; for Novem-
Der 4 and 5, provided they attend the
state association; for Thanksgiving
and the day following. and for Wash
ingtof's birthday. Teachers do not
receive pay for Christmas and spring
vacations.
Some Explanations Corncerning the
United School District.
The plans for the uniting of the two
school districts of Canon City was
marked out by committee appointed
by the boards of educaHon of the two
districts. This plan will be carried
out in every detail. The following
are some of the more important de
tails, and will be of interest to the pa
irons and residents of the entire com
munity:
A junior high school, consisting o.
all the Seventh, Eighth and Nintt
grade children of the South Side will
be established in the South Sid'
high school.
The agricultural department of thu
s-I l. h1;x
moved to the South Side high school
and will be ready to begin work ther
when school opens. All pupils tax
dng agriculture from either side of tn
river will go to the South Side hig
school for that course. The govern
ment requirement for any one takin
that course is that half the school da
be given to agriculture and the othe
half to the regular academic studies
Those pupils who take agriculture
unless 1t should be the Ninth grad
students of the South Side, will TAX
the academic studies on the Mort
Side and Ninth grade pupils of tn
South Side. who take agriculture wi
remain in the junior high for thei
academic studies. That is, North Sid
pupils taking agriculture, will spen
sone half day in the South Side hig
school and the other half day in tn
North Side high school.
Domestic science and manual trair
ing will be given in the South Sid
high school as before
The Tenth, Eleventh and Twelft
grade pupils from the South Side Wi
take their work in the North Sid
high school
The Seventh Eighth and Mint
made pupils from the North Side vii
attend the schools on the North Sid
just as formerly, there being no build
ing available for a regularly organize
Junior high school on the North Side
Pupils on the North Side will TAX
their manual training and domesti
science on the North Side as formerly
In the matter of text books. 1t wa
decided by the committee on plan
that wholesale change of text book
should not be undertaken suddenl-
but that when a new text book wa
to be changed or adopted, it should b,
uniform in the district This ha
been adhered to strictly. One chang,
has been made. the Montgomery
United States history on the Soutl
Side and the Mace's United States
history on the North Side has beer
changed to Thwaitest Randall's Unit
ed States history for both sides.
Text Books Uniform In Senior Hion
2he beginning reading will be uni
Dorm in the united district, being tht
Beacon method. These readers will