Spanish Mine Elementary School - State School Register for Public Elementary Schools (PH 17-13)(1938-1939) (36 pages)

Scuoor Copr Section No. 1.130-—1.340 1.350-1.430 1.500—1.514 1.120-1.123 Rutes oF STATE COMPULSORY FULL-TIME ATTENDANCE. All children between the ages of eight and sixteen years not exempted by law are required to attend public full-time day schools for the full time for which the public schools of the district are in session. Those who may be exempted from full-time attendance upon day schools are the following: 1. Children who are physically or mentally disabled. 2. Children residing more than two miles from school by the nearest traveled road and whose exemption is approved by the county superintendent of schools. Children receiving instruction in a private full-time day school, Children receiving instruction at least three hours a day for 170 days each year by a private tutor. Children holding work permits and attending part-time classes. Children over fourteen years of age assigned upon recommendation of the principal to a vocational course in a place of employment in lieu of the regular school course. COMPULSORY CONTINUATION EDUCATION. All children between sixteen and eighteen years of age who have not graduated from a public high school or who have not had an equal amount of education, who are not physically or mentally disabled, whose personal services are not required by dependents, and who are not in attendance upon a public school or private full-time day school must attend special continuation classes maintained by the high school board for not less than four sixty-minute hours per week throughout the annual school term. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF THE DEAF. Every minor who is over five years of age and less than twenty years of age who by reason of deafness or impaired hearing is unable to benefit materially by the methods of instruction in use in the public schools shall be required to attend a school or class for the deaf maintained by a school district or by the state. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF PUPILS. Physical examination may be given all pupils unless written statement is filed by parent or guardian refusing consent to the physical examination. Any pupil believed to be suffering from a recognized contagious or infectious disease shall be sent home and not permitted to return until the school authorities are satisfied that such contagious or infectious disease does not exist. nm pw Boarp oF EpucaTION Section No. llG lH Il J VIB VIC VID ScHoor Copz Section No. 1.20 1.40 1.300—1.340 C. COURSES OF ScHooLt CopE Section No. 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 GENERAL Laws (Deering) Act 752024 ScHoot Copr Section No. 3.710-3.714 3.720—3.725 3.730-3.747 5.544 3.761 3.762 3.780 RIGHTS OF PUPILS. No pupil shall be detained in school during the intermission at noon, or during any recess. All pupils shall be required to pass out of the school rooms at recesses, unless it would occasion an exposure of health. No pupil shall be detained in school for disciplinary or other reasons for more than the maximum day except as provided in Section IB of the Rules and Regulations of State Board of Education. Pupils shall not be required to perform janitorial or other services detrimental to health. No pupil shall be required to pay any fee or deposit not specifically authorized by law. DUTIES OF PUPILS. Duties of pupils specified. Except in case of emergency, or on approval of principal, pupils may not leave school at recess or at any other time before the close of school. Pupils required to be neat and clean. All pupils must comply with the regulations, pursue the required course of study, and submit to the authority of the teachers of the schools. Hazing constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Pupils reported as truants from instruction are liable to arrest, and habitual truancy or insubordination or disorderliness constitute cause for complaint in superior court and the latter may require a commitment of such child to a parental school. Fines and penalties provided. STUDY. REQUIRED INSTRUCTION. All schools must be taught in the English language. Teachers must give attention to physical exercises and to the ventilation and temperature of school rooms. Instruction must be given in all grades of school in morals and manners and upon the nature of alcohol and narcotics. Persons responsible for preparation or enforcement of courses of study must provide for instruction on subjects of alcohol and narcotics as required by law. Instruction must be given in all grades in public safety and accident prevention. Instruction must be given to begin not later than the eighth grade in the Constitution of the United States including the study of American institutions and ideals. No pupil shall graduate without passing an examination on the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution. ‘Teachers may be dismissed for failure to obey this law. Teachers are required to give instruction each month in fire prevention, Instruction in physical education required for all pupils for an average of twenty minutes in each school day. Principal may excuse pupils for physical disability. Instruction must be given in the principles of morality, truth, justice and patriotism, in the principles of free government and in the rights, duties and dignity of American citizenship. The elementary school course of study shall include the following prescribed subjects which shall be taught in the several grades as required by the local course of study in accordance with Section 3.762 of this code: (1) reading, (2) writing, (3) spelling, (4) language study, (5) arithmetic, (6) geography, (7) history of the United States and of California, (8) civics, including a study of the Constitution of the United States, (9) music, (10) art, (11) training for healthful living, (12) morals and manners; and such other studies not to exceed three as may be prescribed by the school board. A minimum of fifty per cent of each school week must be devoted to reading, writing, language study, spelling and arithmetic in grades one to six, inclusive, and a minimum of six hundred minutes of each school week must be devoted to such subjects in grades seven and eight. Postgraduate elementary school courses of study shall consist of business English, commercial arithmetic, commercial and physical geography, bookkeeping and United States history and civics. 6.

Scuoor Copr Section No. 1.130-—1.340 1.350-1.430 1.500—1.514 1.120-1.123 Rutes oF STATE COMPULSORY FULL-TIME ATTENDANCE. All children between the ages of eight and sixteen years not exempted by law are required to attend public full-time day schools for the full time for which the public schools of the district are in session. Those who may be exempted from full-time attendance upon day schools are the following: 1. Children who are physically or mentally disabled. 2. Children residing more than two miles from school by the nearest traveled road and whose exemption is approved by the county superintendent of schools. Children receiving instruction in a private full-time day school, Children receiving instruction at least three hours a day for 170 days each year by a private tutor. Children holding work permits and attending part-time classes. Children over fourteen years of age assigned upon recommendation of the principal to a vocational course in a place of employment in lieu of the regular school course. COMPULSORY CONTINUATION EDUCATION. All children between sixteen and eighteen years of age who have not graduated from a public high school or who have not had an equal amount of education, who are not physically or mentally disabled, whose personal services are not required by dependents, and who are not in attendance upon a public school or private full-time day school must attend special continuation classes maintained by the high school board for not less than four sixty-minute hours per week throughout the annual school term. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF THE DEAF. Every minor who is over five years of age and less than twenty years of age who by reason of deafness or impaired hearing is unable to benefit materially by the methods of instruction in use in the public schools shall be required to attend a school or class for the deaf maintained by a school district or by the state. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF PUPILS. Physical examination may be given all pupils unless written statement is filed by parent or guardian refusing consent to the physical examination. Any pupil believed to be suffering from a recognized contagious or infectious disease shall be sent home and not permitted to return until the school authorities are satisfied that such contagious or infectious disease does not exist. nm pw Boarp oF EpucaTION Section No. llG lH Il J VIB VIC VID ScHoor Copz Section No. 1.20 1.40 1.300—1.340 C. COURSES OF ScHooLt CopE Section No. 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 GENERAL Laws (Deering) Act 752024 ScHoot Copr Section No.

3.710-3.714 3.720—3.725 3.730-3.747 5.544 3.761 3.762 3.780 RIGHTS OF PUPILS. No pupil shall be detained in school during the intermission at noon, or during any recess. All pupils shall be required to pass out of the school rooms at recesses, unless it would occasion an exposure of health. No pupil shall be detained in school for disciplinary or other reasons for more than the maximum day except as provided in Section IB of the Rules and Regulations of State Board of Education. Pupils shall not be required to perform janitorial or other services detrimental to health. No pupil shall be required to pay any fee or deposit not specifically authorized by law. DUTIES OF PUPILS. Duties of pupils specified. Except in case of emergency, or on approval of principal, pupils may not leave school at recess or at any other time before the close of school. Pupils required to be neat and clean. All pupils must comply with the regulations, pursue the required course of study, and submit to the authority of the teachers of the schools. Hazing constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Pupils reported as truants from instruction are liable to arrest, and habitual truancy or insubordination or disorderliness constitute cause for complaint in superior court and the latter may require a commitment of such child to a parental school. Fines and penalties provided. STUDY. REQUIRED INSTRUCTION. All schools must be taught in the English language. Teachers must give attention to physical exercises and to the ventilation and temperature of school rooms. Instruction must be given in all grades of school in morals and manners and upon the nature of alcohol and narcotics. Persons responsible for preparation or enforcement of courses of study must provide for instruction on subjects of alcohol and narcotics as required by law. Instruction must be given in all grades in public safety and accident prevention. Instruction must be given to begin not later than the eighth grade in the Constitution of the United States including the study of American institutions and ideals. No pupil shall graduate without passing an examination on the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution. ‘Teachers may be dismissed for failure to obey this law. Teachers are required to give instruction each month in fire prevention, Instruction in physical education required for all pupils for an average of twenty minutes in each school day. Principal may excuse pupils for physical disability. Instruction must be given in the principles of morality, truth, justice and patriotism, in the principles of free government and in the rights, duties and dignity of American citizenship. The elementary school course of study shall include the following prescribed subjects which shall be taught in the several grades as required by the local course of study in accordance with Section 3.762 of this code: (1) reading, (2) writing, (3) spelling, (4) language study, (5) arithmetic, (6) geography, (7) history of the United States and of California, (8) civics, including a study of the Constitution of the United States, (9) music, (10) art, (11) training for healthful living, (12) morals and manners; and such other studies not to exceed three as may be prescribed by the school board. A minimum of fifty per cent of each school week must be devoted to reading, writing, language study, spelling and arithmetic in grades one to six, inclusive, and a minimum of six hundred minutes of each school week must be devoted to such subjects in grades seven and eight. Postgraduate elementary school courses of study shall consist of business English, commercial arithmetic, commercial and physical geography, bookkeeping and United States history and civics. 6.