Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-09-03
SCHOOL WORK TO
Begin NEXT MONTH
LIST OF TEACHERS
Summary by Prof. Nixon of
School Requirements and
Expectations for Coming
Years.

Regular school work will begin
Monday of next week. For several
years it has been customary tc
open the week following institute
for this section of the state. This
year institute will be held the first
week of October. This will make
it necessary to close school for a
week at that time.
Two years ago fully one third oil
our students entered school late.
Last year about one fourth did the
same. The percentage was still far
too large. We want to cut it to
one fifth or less this year if possible.
Any student now residing in the dis
trict should be present the first day
unless detained because of sickness.
Last years grade promotions were
all conditional in that the student
must be in school by the beginning
of the second week or go back to his
old grade.
The building will be open at S:15
Monday morning and regular work
will be taken up at 845 the same
as last year. 1t will also close at
the same time When student is
dismissed after school he will be ex-
pected to go directly home. Last
year many went up town and to
various other places and parents
were led to think that they were on
the school grounds. Grade students
will meet in the rooms which they
were in last year and be distributed
to their proper places for this year.
In the high school registration will
take place and preparations for
Tuesday will be begun. All students
will be dismissed at noon. The
afternoon will be used by the teach
ers to prepare the following days
work and for general teachers
meeting in the office
New Students
Children who will be six years of
age before January first will be ad-
mitted to the first grade if parents
think it advisable to send them.
There will not be another chance to
enter until the next school year
New students from other schools
should go to the superintendent
office. They will be placed in the
grades that they were promoted to
in their former schools and kept
there as long as they do satisfactory
work If they fail to do this they
will have to be denoted. Students
who wish to enter high school must
present their report cards or pro-
motion certificates in the office to
the superintendent.
Attendance.
Regular attendance does more
than any one other thing to secure
results in school. Sickness of the |
student should be the only cause for
absence under ordinary circum-
stances. Our attendance was much
better in the last school year and |
we had much larger percentage of
promotions than we had in 1920. |
Written excuses will be required for
all absences. Our state laws are
strict in regard to attendance and |
will be enforced, Our last legis-
lature raised the age limit for com
pulsory attendance back to eighteen.
This applies to all students unless
they have finished the eighth grade.
If they have done this they are ex-
empt when they become fifteen. Lei
us cooperate to secure the best at
tendance possible. If you know of
children who are not in school when
they should be please report them to
the superintendent and the case
will be investigated Immediately.
Course of Study
There will be no striking changes
in our course this year. We will
have complete courses in the eighth
grade and high school. This has
reference to the book subjects only.
Cooking, sewing and manual train
ing we're given up last year and
years previous. The only industrial
course left is the commercial one.
we have strong department and
take pride in its work. Many of it's
former students are now holding re-
sponsible and well paid positions.
Mrs. Bertha e. Hays will again be
in charge. The commercial course
is so correlated with other high
school work that the student can Sc
cure a broader education than re-
caived at a business college and re-