Hendersonville High School - Laureate Yearbook (Hendersonville, NC)

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30 THE MOUNTAINEER tention shall have been filed with the Superintendent for twenty days. IV. Teachers are required to be in their respective places fif¬ teen minutes before the beginning of the daily session. If tardy, they shall report the fact to the Superintendent with the reason therefor. x V. In case of absence, from sickness or other cause, timely notice thereof shall be sent to the Superintendent who shall provide a substitute from thelist elected by the School Board. For each day’s absence a teacher shall forfeit one-twentieth of his or her monthly salary. VI. Teachers shall attend all meetings called by the Superin¬ tendent and shall make such prepai ' ations for these meetings as he may direct. VII. Teachers shall make it a part of their regular duties to keep in touch with their patrons, and shall take immediate steps to ascertain the cause of all absences. VIII. Teachers shall not make any reply to written complaints addressed to them by parents or guardians relative to pupils, as all such communications should be referred to the Superintendent for his consideration. IX. No teacher shall be employed in the schools who has tuberculosis or any other contagious or infectious disease. Pupils — Admission. I. All boys and girls between the ages of six and twenty-one years, wRo, with their parents or legal guardians, reside in the town of Hendersonville and are entitled under the rules and regu¬ lations of the School Board to the benefits of the public schools, shall be admitted into the school and grade for which they are qualified by obtaining a certificate from the Superintendent. Child¬ ren whose parents or legal guardians live outside the city will be admitted to the grades below the High School at the following rates: $1.25 per month per pupil, with 25 per cent, discount for more than one in a family: parents or legal guardians paying school tax in this city to receive credit on this account to the amount of city school tax actually paid by them. Tuition must be paid in ad¬ vance, and, if not paid by the 15th day of each current month, the Superintendent shall suspend the children of the delinquent parent or guardian until such payment is made. II. The children of the entire county will be admitted without

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THE MOUNTAINEER 29 The study of expression rightly pursued and intelligently guided tends directly toward the amassing of knowledge which will enable the student to sanely correlate his own experience and his own thought to the life of humanity, and to prove this knowledge of himself by his ability to manifest himself. Also the study of masterpieces of literature, the interpretation of their truth and beauty, and the expression of it with voice and body, will develop an appreciation of literature and art, and thus will be a valuable means of cultivating the spiritual life. EXPENSES Business Department, $4.00 per month. Business Department, (without typewrit¬ ing practice) $3.50 per month. Music $3.00 per month. Expression $3.00 per month. We hope to be able financially to install a domestic science department after the following year, together with the nucleus of a complete laboratory equipment. Rules and Regulations of the Henderson¬ ville Graded Schools. Teachers I. All appointments to positions in the Hendersonvifiq Graded schools shall be made by the School Board in the following manner: A meeting of the School Board shall be held for that purpose after notice shall have been published once a week for three weeks in one or more of the local newspapers, which notice shall state the object of the meeting and call for applicants; applications shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by such credentials and testimonials as the applicant may wish to submit, and every ap¬ pointment made shall be conditioned upon the appointee’s obtaining q First Grade Certificate from either the County or State Superin¬ tendent. II. All teachers in the Hendersonville Graded schools are re¬ quired by law to attend the County Institute and take the Teachers Reading Course. III. Teachers shall hold their places at the pleasure of the School Board, and not be at liberty to resign until n otice of such in-

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THE MOUNTAINEER 31 charge to any of the grades of the High School for which they may be prepared. But a child whose parent or legal guardian, though temporarily in this county, is not a bona fide legal resident thereof, shall not be admitted to the high school except on payment of $2 per month, payable in advance. III. No child residing in a household in which has occurred any contagious disease, or who has been exposed to any such dis¬ ease in any other manner, shall be admitted into the public schools within two weeks after the recovery or removal of such person or persons or the incubation period of such disease shall have passed except upon the written certificate of the attending physician stat¬ ing that such precautions have been taken as to prevent all danger of infection. IV. Pupils who cannot read should not present themselves for admission to the schools after the second week of each session. Examination. I. No written examination shall be required of pupils below the fifth grade. II. Two written tests shall be given each session to all pupils above the Fourth Grade, and 70 per cent, shall be sufficient to pass those pupils who have not been absent as much as one month of the term. For those who have been absent one month or more of the term 80 per cent shall be required to pass. III. No pupil shall be promoted to the next higher grade if such pupil has fallen below 70 per cent, on one subject, unless his general average is 75 per cent. Those falling below 70 per cent on two or more subjects shall not be promoted at all. Pupils in the Eleventh Grade are required to pass all examinations before receiv¬ ing diplomas. IV. On the third day of the second school month, and month¬ ly thereafter, a report of the progress, attendance and deportment of each pupil who has been present as many as ten days will be sent to the parent or guardian to be signed and returned promptly to the teacher in whose grade the pupil receives instruction. V. Any pupil making a monthly average of 90 per cent, shall be exempt from examinations. VI. Any pupil making a yearly average of 90 per cent, shall be exempt from final examination. VII. Any pupil absent from examinations, unless providen¬ tially hindered, shall forfeit 50 per cent, on daily grade.