Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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THE GEORGE PERKIN'S RAYMOND GYMNASIUM

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given only in cases of serious misconduct or violation of fundamental School regulations. Upon the student’s classification depend many of his privileges and the degree of freedom which he shall enjoy during the ensuing three weeks. Permission to study in rooms rather than in the Study Hall, permission to visit town, the number of week-ends to which a boy is entitled, and other rewards are offered for high classifications; for low classifications extra periods of detention and penalties of like nature are in force. In addition to the privileges which may be earned under the system, and purely as an incentive to scholarship, boys whose academic stand- ing has been maintained at a certain level throughout the term are allowed to leave the School one or more days in advance of the regular beginning of the Christmas and Spring vacations. Each year the Sixth Form of the School carries on under the pro- vision of an Honor System. This system of self-discipline pre-supposes on the part of every boy self-respect based on honesty, loyalty to the School, and a spirit of cooperation. The Honor System implies the willingness of the Sixth Form to set, by example, standards worthy of emulation by the Under-Formers; and further provides, through the agency of the School Council of thirteen members, responsibility for general School conduct and morale. The Honor System implies that any boy who has either willfully or unwittingly violated a School rule shall report his case either to the Sixth Form Council or his Hall Master. The Sixth Form Council is to act as an Honor Committee—that is, to take charge of regulating the Honor System and to keep the Form alive to all the implications of the System. It is not the duty of the Council to spy or try to detect infractions of the rules, but rather to take cognizance of all infractions which by any means come to their notice and to deal with them in such a way as to mete out justice to the offender and protect the morale of the School. I 29 I