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Title: Spanish Mine Elementary School - State School Register for Public Elementary Schools (PH 17-13)(1938-1939) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 17-13 Author: Florence Harper Published: 1938-1939 Subjects: Spanish Mine Elementary School, Washington # of Pages: 36 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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AUTHORIZED INSTRUCTION. 3.700—3.704 Courses in forestry authorized for elementary schools. 3.420-3.422 In special day and evening classes of elementary schools instruction may be given in any of the branches of study prescribed and authorized for the elementary schools of the state. 3.430-3.431 Special courses of study different than the regular elementary school course of study may be substituted in special classes for atypical children. 3.790 County boards of education may provide work in elementary agriculture, manual arts, stenography and typewriting in postgraduate elementary school courses. PROHIBITED INSTRUCTION. 3.50-3.51 No fost petion shall reflect in any way upon citizens of the United States because of their race, color, or creed. 3.52 No publications of a sectarian, partisan or denominational character must be used or distributed in any school or any school library, nor must any sectarian or denominational doctrine be taught therein. 3.53 The use or circulation of publications for the purpose of propaganda is prohibited in the public schools. D. ATTENDANCE, SCHOOLS OF DISTRICT TO HAVE EQUAL TERMS. 3.20 All of the elementary schools of any district must be maintained for an equal length of time during the year except when exempted by the State Department of Education on account of emergency conditions. THE SCHOOL YEAR. 3.22 The school year begins on the first day of July and ends on the last day of June. (The “annual school term” is the period elapsing from the time school opens in any school year to the time when school closes in the same school year.) SCHOOL MONTH. 3.23 A school month consists of twenty school days or four weeks of five school days each (Mondays to Fridays, inclusive) including holidays. LENGTH OF SCHOOL DAY. 4.760 The school board must fix the length of the school day for the several grades and classes of the kinder‘ gartens and elementary schools. 4.761 The minimum school day’s attendance for pupils in kindergartens is 120 minutes. 4.762 The minimum school day’s attendance for pupils in grades one, two and three is 200 minutes. 4.763 The minimum school day’s attendance for pupils in grades four to cight, inclusive, in elementary school is 240 minutes. 4.764 The minimum school day’s attendance shall in each case be exclusive of noon intermissions and recesses. MAXIMUM SCHOOL DAY. 3.24 No pupil in a kindergarten or in grade one or two may be kept in school more than four hours per day, Rutes or STATE Boarp or EpucATION SecTIon No. IC ScHoot CopE Section No. 4.765 4.767 4.769 4.734 2.251 2.21 exclusive of recesses. DAILY SCHOOL SESSION. Unless otherwise provided by the school board, in grades one, two and three the school day shall begin at nine a.m. and close at two p.m. with a noon recess of one hour from twelve until one, and with two ten-minute recesses to begin at ten and eleven o’clock, respectively; and in grades four to eight, inclusive, the school day shall be from nine a.m. until four p.m. with a noon recess of one hour from twelve until one o’clock. Not less than twenty minutes daily shall be devoted to recesses in any elementary school grade and no pupil may be kept in school for more than one hour without a recess in grades one, two and three. COMPUTATION OF ATTENDANCE. In regular day schools pupils shall be marked absent five per cent of the school day for any full period of absence equal to one full twentieth of the school day as established by the school board. The average daily attendance in elementary schools for any year is the quotient arising from dividing the total number of days of pupils’ attendance in all grades and classes, including postgraduate elementary school courses and special day and evening classes of the elementary schools of the district for the school year by the number of days school was actually taught in the regular elementary day schools of the district during the school year. No pupil shall be credited with more than one day’s attendance during any calendar day. Four sixty-minute hours of attendance in special day and evening classes constitute one day of attendance. ATTENDANCE IN UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The attendance of pupils in union and joint union elementary school districts (and in unified school districts) shall be kept separately for each district comprising the union (joint union or unified) district. At the close of the year, a separate report shall be made of the attendance of each district composing the union (joint union or unified) district. PUPILS EDUCATED UNDER CONTRACT. The attendance of nonresident pupils shall be credited to the district attended for apportionment purposes. E. HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL DAYS TO BE OBSERVED BY SCHOOLS. ScHoot Copgz Section No. 3.100—3.102 3.90 3.91 Schools must remain open and provide appropriate exercises on: Conservation, Bird and Arbor Day: Luther Burbank’s Birthday, March 7th. Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12th. All other legal holidays except those specified as school holidays. SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. The following days are state school holidays to be observed by the closing of schools: Saturday, Sunday, January 1st, May 30th, July 4th, September 9th, November 11th, December 25th; and every day appointed by the President of the United States or the Governor of this state for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday. Local school boards may declare holidays when good reason exists therefor. (If a state school holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, school boards may declare local holiday on preceding Friday or following Monday.) a.