Onondaga Central School - Onondagan Yearbook (Nedrow, NY)

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ORGANIZATION OF CLASSES In both the Junior and Senior High School departments the Home Room system is used. Each group working with its faculty advisor has its meeting, elects its officers for each term and plans its class activities. You can decide in which class you belong from the essential facts listed below. SENIORS Home Room-209 Home Room Teacher-Mr. von Schlichcen Class Advisor-Mr. von Schlichten Requirements-Three years English and 9 other units JUNIORS Home Room-2 07 Home Room Teacher-Mr. Davison Class Advisor-Mr. Davison Requirements-Two years English and 6 other units SOPHOMORES Home Room-206 Home Room Teacher-Mr. Yavis Class Advisor-Mr. Yavis Requirements-One year English and 3 other units FRESHMEN Home Room-210 Home Room Teacher-Miss Ward Class Advisor-Miss Ward Requirements-Earning of preliminary Regents Certificate JUNIOR HIGH EIGHTH SEVENTH Home Room-202 Home Room-208 Home Room Teacher-Miss Wells Home Room Teacher-Miss Alexander Class Advisor-Miss Wells Class Advisor-Miss Alexander Requirements-Seventh Grade promotion Requirements-Sixth Grade promotion Each home room teacher desires to be of help to you. When you need advice about your schedule, school work or other problems be sure to cooperate with your advisor. Make your home room the best in the school. Below are various lists showing the subjects and the years in which they should be taken. Any variation from this arrangement tends to unbalance a schedule of -10-

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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Pupils who are absent or tardy bring hardship and disappointment upon them- selves and also lower the aims of the school as a whole. A student attending Onondaga Central School is expected to do his best workg this can best be accomplished with perfect attendance. It is rather discouraging to return to school to find you are many days' work behind the rest of the class. The following excuses are legal: 1. Sickness of child or sickness in family. 2. Inclement weather. 3. Impassable roads. 4. Religious observance. 5. Required to be in court. All other absences are illegal, according to law and must be classified as: 1. Illegal employment. 2. Unlawful employment. 3. Truancy. Pupils attending school for a part of a day are not to leave before the close of the school day without permission of the principal. Parents desiring to have children excused for some necessary reason, should send a signed note making the request to the school office. ADVANTAGES TO PARENTS OF REGULAR PUPIL ATTENDANCE Onondaga Central School District Number 1 receives annually from the State of New York about 7022 of the total amount of money spent for school purposes. The total budget for the coming year is S54,407.71, of which 539,081.13 is received from the State in the form of State Aid, based upon attendance of pupils, the building quota, transportation quota, non-resident tuition quota, and Federal Aid for Agriculure. Contrary to common belief, State Aid is money raised by the State from taxes on the sale of stocks and bonds, income taxes, taxes on corporations, inheritance taxes, insurance tax and other forms of business taxes. NONE OF IT IS RECEIVED FROM TAXES ON REAL ESTATE. The amount of State Aid any school district receives depends upon its total days' attendance by the pupils plus the quotas as set up by the law. EVERY DAY THAT A PUPIL IS IN SCHOOL MEANS MONEY IN THE TREASURY OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, and therefore a decrease in the amount of taxes to be raised locally for school purposes. It has been estimated by school authorities that the absence of a local High School student for one day, whether the reason is avoidable or not, costs the District approxi- mately 46 cents. The absence of a grade pupil for one day costs the District about 29 cents. Much money could be saved the District, and therefore the taxpayers, if pupils were required to attend every day they are able. TUITION Pupils may be admitted to either the elementary grades or high school departments without tuition charges if the enrollment makes such a procedure advisable. No tuition is charged non-resident academic pupils or pupils in the Junior High School departments unless a contracting district prefers this charge. VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME We are pleased when parents and friends of the school visit to observe the actual operation of the various activities which have brought children of all ages to enjoy school work. Visitors are asked to call at the ofEce and register. They will be shown to the room or class they wish to visit. -9.. Edueati0n for effective demoeraey, in the face of conditions at home and abroad, is more than a job, it is more than a profession, it is a crusade. It is a rare against eatastrophe too imminent and too abysmal to be eountenaneed for the children of A7llBYlCll.,,-DURANT

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classes and even renders it impossible to build a class schedule without conflicts. Per- mission to take more than four courses or to take a course out of the year stated may be granted by the principal. Seventh Year English Arithmetic Art Home Making Music Physical Education Science Shop-Woodwork Social Studies Ninth Year English I .,..a.,.. Agriculture I ,,,.,,.,, , Algebra ,,.,,.,,.,,..,,, Eighth Year English Arithmetic Art Home Making Music Physical Education Science Shop-Woodwork Social Studies Units Tenth Year :5'English II ,,.,,.,,. --, ----- 1 , ,- 1 ,,,,, 1 General Science ............. ,,- 1 Home Economics 9th a,........ 1 Latin I ..-,,...,,............ 1 Physical Education cc,,.ac. er-- 0 Representation ........,,....,. M 1 Social Studies ................. Qlntroduction to Business ..--Y -- 1 Eleventh Year Units :iEnglish III ,,.,,c,c.,......... 1 Il1Agriculture III .,,.,,..,,.,c.. 2 1,lZChemistry ............,.,.... 1 French II ,,....,,.........,c. 1 Geometry ......c,.,c...... -- 1 iHistory B t............,,..... 1 IfjHome Making B ..........-.,c 2 Intermediate Algebra ,,.,,..... M ' 1 Latin II ,,.....,...,c........ Physical Education ......,,H... 0 Physical Geography ...... E 1 IPhys1cs ...,,..,.............. 1 Plane Trigonometry ....... -.--- 1 Agriculture II ........ Units , .,,. 1 --2 'l'Economic Geography I rt--. ,I M 'l'Economic Geography II ,,- Y, LQ French I ................ -- 1 Geometry .....c..,.,I......,, 1 Home Making A H..,.....,,.,, 2 IlIHistory A ,c..c..,....,,., -- 1 Latin II ............... .c... 1 'l'Mechanical Drawing I .... -. ...,. M 0 Physical Education ...,.., flntroduction to Business ,,, QCommercial Arithmetic -,, -ISI 1 -- 1 Twelfth Year Units :iEnglish IV ,,,,, ,,.,..,,,..,. 1 Zl,IAgriculture IV a,,,....,,.,,.. 2 1l1Chemistry ........-........,. 1 Economics e,..... . .. ..... ..... M French II .,....,,.,,....c..,c 1 :iHistory C e,.,,-,,.,c......,, 1 Ilil-Iome Making D ,,....... I 2 Intermediate Algebra -- - --- M Latin III ...............t.... 1 Physical Education ...,A......, 0 Physical Geography ,,e..,,., , 1 iPhys1cs ,,.,,.,..,,.,,..,,.,,. 1 Plane Trigonometry ........... 1 It is the desire of the faculty of Onondaga Central School to propose courses of study in which pupils are vitally interested and when a sufficiently large enough group of pupils desire a course to be taught, the course will be offered. 'Required subjects for State High School Diploma. 'l'May be taken any year. 1Taught alternate years-in school year 1937-38, Chemistry, Agriculture IV, Home Making D and History B will be taught. Elf group is sufficiently large to warrant a class.