Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-08-31
SUPERINTENDENT
TELLS OF WORK
Asks Cooperation of Parents of Pupils
During Coming School Year
Good Corps of Teachers

Our school work will begin the
first Monday of September, as has
been the custom for years. Some may
ask why we should be so unpatriotic
as to teach on a holiday. While the
state laws make Labor Day holi-
day for some purposes, the state leg
islature passed law about two and
a half years ago designating the days
which were in the future to be
classed as holidays for school pur-
poses and left Labor Day out of the
list. The first day of school is taken
up with reorganization and we will
not require the students to be present
in the afternoon.
We always have some students
who must enter school late for some
reason. This number has been grad
ually decreasing but it still is larger
than it ought to be. The promotions
in the grades were all conditional in
that the student must be in school
again by the beginning of the sec
ond week. Any student will be ex
pected to do the quality of work
which his grade should have to be
up to standard. If he continues to
lag behind the only remedy is de-
motion if his case is very bad and
lack of promotion for the year fol-
lowing in cases where the grade of
work is not quite so low. The good
of other children or the welfare of
the school cannot be sacrificed be-
cause of poor scholarship of any
student. The only test will be the
ability to do the work and the stud
ent using his ability up to a reason
able degree. We cannot take into
consideration name, age or position
of the parent when it comes to the
determination of the grading of a
boy or a girl.
FIRST DAY
The building will be open at 8:15
the same as last year. This gives a
good forenoon when better work can
be done than in the late afternoon.
All grades will be dismissed by 800
in the afternoon and the high school
at 3:45. This year, to avoid mis-
understanding and to keep parents |
better informed on whether students |
are at school or on the streets, we
are not going to keep grade students |
after school later than four in the
afternoon and high school students
later than half past four. Students |
may be allowed to remain longer to |
work at times but are not compelled |
to stay. This has always been our
practice, with a few exceptions, but
we have found that a few students
have led their parents to believe that
they were at the school building
working when in reality they were
elsewhere. When students are dis
missed we expect them to leave the
grounds Immediately and not return
until the time for their entrance in
to the building. Parents will help
greatly if they do not allow their
children to rush back to school too
early at noon hour when there is on
ly one teacher on duty to supervise
the grounds. Grade students will
meet in the rooms which they were
in last year for redistribution. High
school students will meet in their
main room for registration and prep
aration for next days work. There
VIII be no regular school in the af-
ternoon but all teachers will meet
IN the office for instruction on the
plan of the year.
NEW STUDENTS
All children entering school for
The first time should be six years
If age before the first of next year.
rhey should go directly to the first
grade room. 1t is usually best to
lave them accompanied by some old
sr person or student. Beginners
hould enter the first day if possible
md never later than the first of Oc-
ober as later entrance means that
he student has to be carried in a
lass by himself until he makes up
III back work. This takes the teach I
RS time from other students and t
S not fair to them. There will be 7
10 midyear class begun as we do not I
lave the room or Accommodations to l
axe care of another class. All grade s
nd high school students from other t
chools should report at the office I
7ith last years report cards and I
redit slips if they have any. These a
tudents will be placed where they t
re expected to be in the schools $
rom which they came but will be d
expected to do satisfactory work or t
o back to where they are able to 0
eep up with their classes. &
REGULAR ATTENDANCE r
Regular attendance is one of the G
iSt hSqulSiteS 10 SUCCESSFUL school .
'ork. Sometimes sickness and other a
npreventable causes keep students n
ut. Too often, however, they stay g
ut or are kept out for trifling pur- q
Oses. This is one of the best ways is
, start Indifference to school work I
nd lay foundation for later fail 81
res. There is a compulsory school Al
w requiring all students to attend 6
,hOol until thew are eighteen unless II
ley are through the eighth grade. u
here is a provision whereby stu OF
ents may be excused by the superin- ol
'ndent for good causes. We IN
ave done this some in the seventh ol
. eighth grades but we feel that if W
student has not reached these OF
rades he ought to be allowed to 81
tier and remain in school. Such
ses will be reported to the truant
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