Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-08-24
HIGH SCHOOLS OF
SHENANDOAH COUNTY

| The six first grade high schools o.
shenandoah County, viz: Strasburg
Toms Brook, Woodstock, Edinburg,
Mt. jackson and New Market, will
open on Wednesday September 9Th by
order of the Shenandoah County
School Board. The three two-year
high schools, viz Fort Valley, Comic
vile and Forestville, will opon on the
same date. The grade departments OF
these nine schools will all open on
September 5. The .two-year high
school at Quicksburg, which will be a
nine months term, will open on We'd
nesday Sept. 5, and the grades for this
school will open on Monday, October /.
The rural schools in Shenandoah
County will open on Monday, Oct. 1.
By order of the County School Board,
the following high school course of
study has been revised and adopte d
for Shenandoah County for the coming
session:
1ST YEAR
English
Four required Algebra
J History, General Sci
ence or Latin (only p
IND YEAR
English
Four required P Geometry
History, Human Bio
logy or Latin (only p
BIRD YEAR
English
Four required U. S. History &, Civics
Business Arithmetic
Chemistry, French or
Latin tone)
4TH YEAR
Four required History History
Agriculture, French
or Latin (two)
This course varies from the former|
course in the following respects:
1. Latin is made elective in the six
first grade schools and will not be
offered in the two year high schools
except to complete work already start
ed for this year.
-. Solid Geometry will not be offer
I'd as it is recognized as a college sub
ject.
3. Business Arithmetic will be re
quired for graduation after the session
of 1924.
4. The course in two year schools
wilt be as follows except as indicated
in section l above:
First Year Second Year
English English
Algebra Plane Geometry
General Science Agriculture
History History
By order of the County School
Board uniform rate of tuition for all
high school students in Shenandoah
County has been fixed at s25. 90 for the
session of 1933-24. One-half of this
tuition is due and payable on Septem-
Der 5. and the other half the latter part
of January. This rate will apply to all
schools, and to each of the four years
in the high school. There will be mol
exception to this rate i'll the case oil
students coming from one district toI
another, or from a district to a town.
The following order was adopted byl
the Shenandoah County School Board
at its meeting in Strasburg on August
16, 1923:
at is ordered by the Shenandoah
County School Board that all high
school buttons, due and payable the
coming session, if not paid within ten
days from the time the same are due
and payable, the clerk of the Board is
hereby authorized and empowered to
notify the principal in said high school
that said pupils are delinquent in the
payment of their tuition and the said
principal shall, upon such notice and
recomme ndation from the Clerk of the
Board, dismiss such pupils from this
school for failure to pay their tuition
within the prescribed time"
1t is very necessary that students
who wish to maintain their standing in
high school must enter promptly at the
beginning of the session and continue
regularly throughout the session. In
high school it is not possible for
students to enter week or ten days
after school opens without seriously
impairing their standing in the various
subjects they study.
Next week a statement will be made
In regard to the text books to be used
Lowering changes made by the State
Board of Education in its adoption for
the coming session.
By order of Shenandoah County
School Board.
C. V. SHOEMAKER,
Div. Supt. of Schools.
list OF TEACHERS CONTRACTED
WITH FOR SESSION 1924,
SHENANDOAH COUNTY.