Hammond Central School - Spotlight Yearbook (Hammond, NY)

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Building-. The Hammond Union School building is a modern wood- en structure and in every way up-to-date. The heating and lighting are of the best for the convenience and diligence of the student. The ventilating system warrants plenty of good fresh air. There is also a water system. The building contains five class-rcoms, each with an ad- joining cloakroom, besides a library and a physics and biology laboratory. There is ample hall space, making easy access to the rooms. Laboratories and Apparatus The library contains 500 volumes for general circulation, including history, fiction, science, travel, biography, peda- gogics, art a d miscellaneous books, works of reference, etc. Great care is taken in selection of books to procure those that will be of greatest benefit to both pupils and teacher in their daily work, and stimulate a desire for wholesome reading and develop a taste for good literature. The apparatus in Physics is suitable for illustrating the principles of mechanic, dynamics, fluid pressure, laws of mo- tion, heat, sound, light and electricity. The course in biology requires the working of thirty to forty laboratory experiments, which can be done in a very satisfactory manner, in the laboratory. The laboratory will accomodate eighteen pupils in this work. Fire Drill. Chapter 201. An act providing for fire drills in the Schools of the Sta'e.

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candidate. They can be taken only at high schools and academies. This certificate shall rot be issued on the basis of examinations alone, as it is provided only for those who have regularly pursued a full course in the high schools and academies of this State. Experience. No previous experience in teaching is re- quired. Where valid. A certificate of this grade shall be valid only in the particular school dictrict for which it is issued or made valid by the school commissioner, which shall be a school district not maintaining an academic department. Term. An academic certificate shall be issued for a term of two years. Number of certificates. Only one academic certificate shall be issued to any one person. Extension. An academic certificate may be extended one year for each 18 credits obtained in examinations for life State certificates and earned while it is in force. Counts earned in Regents’ examinations shall not be applied for ex- tension of this certificate. Issuance of certificate. An academic certificate shall be issued only after the candidate has made an engagement to teach, approved by the school commissioner having juris- diction. But a person entitled to an academic certificate, though such certificate has not yet been issued, is legally qualified to contract by presenting a formal statement from the school commissioner having jurisdiction showing that such person is entitled to this certificate and certifying that such certificate will be issued when a contract has been made with the trustee of some district designated in such statement of the school commissioner.

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Section I. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge of every public or private school or educa- tional institution within the State having more than ore hundred pupils, to instruct and train the pupils by means of drills so that they may in a sudden emergency be able to leave the school building in the shortest possible time and without confusion and panic. Such drills shall be held at least once each month. Section II. Neglect by any principal or other person in charge of any public or private school to comply with this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable at the discretion of the court by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. Such fine to be paid to the pension fund of the local fire department when there is such a fund. Diplomas. To enable the Department to issue examinations that shall fully protect the rights and interests of weak or slowly developing students and at the same time test adequately the knowledge and training of the most capable, the following system of differentiated credentials has been adopted and went into operation with class that graduated in June, 1909. I. A diploma based upon minimum passing mark of 60 per cent, in each subject. II. A diploma with credit based on a general average of 75- III. A diploma, with great credit, based on a general average of 85. IV. A diploma, with highest credit, based on general average of 95. In computing general averages, the rating of any answer paper not below 60 may be included.