MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA.

[Adopted by the State Board of Education, in accordance with subdivision one of section fifteen hundred and twenty-one of the Political Code, and required to be enforced in all public schools, according to subdivision one of section sixteen hundred and ninety-six of the Political Code.]

SECTION 1. Teachers are required to be present at their respective school-rooms, and to open them for the admission of the pupils, at fifteen minutes before the time prescribed for commencing schools, and to observe punctually the hours for opening and closing school.

SEC. 2. Unless otherwise provided by special action of Trustees or Boards of Education, the daily school session shall commence at nine o'clock A. M., and close at four o'clock P. M., with an intermission at noon of one hour, from twelve м. to one o'clock P. M. There shall be allowed a recess of twenty minutes in the forenoon session-from tenforty to eleven o'clock-and a recess of twenty minutes in the afternoon session-from two-forty to three o'clock. When boys and girls are allowed separate recesses, fifteen minutes shall be allowed for each.

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SEC. 3. In graded primary schools in which the average age of the pupils is eight years, the daily session shall not exceed four hours a day, exclusive of the intermission at noon, and inclusive of the recesses. If such schools are opened at nine o'clock A. M., they shall be closed at two o'clock P. M. În ungraded schools, all children under eight years of age shall be either dismissed, after a four hours' session, or allowed recesses for play, of such length that the actual confinement in the school-room shall not exceed three hours and a half.

SEC. 4. No pupil shall be detained in school during the intermis. sion at noon, and a pupil detained at any recess shall be permitted to go out immediately thereafter. All pupils, except those detained for punishment, shall be required to pass out of the school-rooms at recess, unless it would occasion an exposure of health.

SEC. 5. Principals shall be held responsible for the general management and discipline of their schools, and the studies pursued; and the assistant teachers shall follow their directions, and coöperate with them, not only during school hours, but during the time when the pupils are on the school premises, before and after school, and during recesses. Assistants shall be held responsible for the studies, order, and discipline of their own rooms, under the general direction of the Principals.

SEC. 6. Teachers are particularly enjoined to devote their time faithfully to a vigilant and watchful care over the conduct and habits of the pupils during the time for relaxation and play, before and after school, and during the recesses, both in the school buildings and on the playgrounds.

SEC. 7. It is expected that teachers will exercise a general inspection over the conduct of scholars going to and returning from school. They shall exert their influence to prevent all quarreling and disagreement, all rude and noisy behavior in the streets, all vulgar and profane language, all improper games, and all disrespect to citizens and strangers.

SEC. 8. Teachers shall prescribe such rules for the use of yards, basements, and outbuildings connected with the school houses, as shall insure their being kept in a neat and proper condition, and shall examine them as often as may be necessary for such purpose. Teachers shall be held responsible for any want of neatness or cleanliness about their school premises.

SEC. 9. Teachers shall give vigilant attention to the ventilation and temperature of their school-rooms. At each recess the windows and doors shall be opened for the purpose of changing the atmosphere of the room. Teachers are required to exercise reasonable supervision over the text-books of the pupils, to inspect the same from time to time, and to prevent their defacement or wanton destruction.

SEC. 10. Teachers shall enter in the school register, in the order of their application, the names of all those applying for admission to the school after the prescribed number of pupils has been received. Such applicants shall be admitted to seats whenever a vacancy occurs in any class for which they have been found duly qualified, in the order of their registration.

SEC. 11. Teachers are authorized to require excuses from the parents or guardians of pupils, either in person or by written note, in all cases of absence or tardiness, or of dismissal before the close of school.

SEC. 12. No person shall be allowed to retain connection with any public school, unless furnished with books, slates, and other utensils required to be used in the class to which he belongs; provided, that no pupil shall be excluded for such cause, unless the parent or guardian shall have been furnished by the teacher with a list of books or articles needed, and one week shall have elapsed after such notice without the pupil's obtaining said books. Books may be furnished to indigent children by the Trustees, at the expense of the district, whenever the teacher shall have certified in writing that the pupil applying is unable to purchase such books.

SEC. 13. Any pupil who shall in any way cut or otherwise injure any school house, or injure any fences, trees, or outbuildings belonging to any of the school estates, or shall write any profane or obscene language, or make any obscene pictures or characters on the school premises, shall be liable to suspension, expulsion, or other punishment, according to the nature of the offense. The teacher may suspend a pupil temporarily for such offense, and shall notify the Trustees of said action. Pupils shall not be allowed to remain in any of the rooms that are provided with improved styles of furniture, except in the presence of a teacher, or a monitor who is made especially responsible for the care of the seats and desks. All damage done to school property by any of the pupils shall be repaired at the expense of the party committing the trespass. Within one week of any dam

age to school property, teachers shall notify the Trustees, or be held personally responsible.

SEC. 14. All pupils who go to the school without proper attention having been given to personal cleanliness, or neatness of dress, shall be sent home to be properly prepared for school, or shall be required to prepare themselves for the school-room before entering. Every school-room shall be provided with a wash basin, soap, and towels.

SEC. 15. No pupils affected with any contagious disease shall be allowed to remain in any of the public schools.

SEC. 16. The books used and the studies pursued shall be such, and such only, as may be authorized by the local Board of Education; and no teacher shall require or advise any of the pupils to purchase for use in the schools any book not contained in the list of books directed and authorized to be used in the schools.

SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of the teachers of the schools to read to the pupils, from time to time, so much of the school regulations as apply to them, that they may have a clear understanding of the rules by which they are governed.

SEC. 18. In all primary schools, exercises in free calisthenics and vocal and breathing exercises shall be given at least twice a day, and for a time not less than from three to five minutes for each exercise. SEC. 19. The following supplies shall be provided by the District Clerk under the provisions of section one thousand six hundred and fifty-one of the Political Code, on the written requisition of the teachers, viz.: clocks, brooms, dusting brushes, wash basins, water buckets, tin cups, dust pans, matches, ink, ink bottles, pens, pen holders, pencils, crayon chalk, writing and drawing paper, hand bells, coal buckets or wood boxes, shovels, pokers, soap, towels, thermometers, door mats, and scrapers.

SEC. 20. Trustees are required to employ a suitable person to sweep and take care of the school house, and they shall make suitable provision for supplying the school with water. In case they fail to do so the teacher shall have the power to require the pupils to perform such duties in turn, in such manner as may, in the teacher's judgment, be best.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of teachers to report to the County Superintendent the books used in their schools, together with the number of pupils in the several divisions of each grade. This report must be made at the beginning and close of each school session or

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SEC. 22. The District Clerk, at the close of each term of school, or whenever a teacher is discharged, shall certify on the back of the order for the last month's salary that the State School Register has been properly kept.

RULES FOR PUPILS.

1. Every pupil is expected to attend school punctually and regularly; to conform to the regulations of the school, and to obey promptly all the directions of the teacher; to observe good order and propriety of deportment; to be diligent in study, respectful to teachers, and kind and obliging to schoolmates; to refrain entirely from the use of profane and vulgar language, and to be clean and neat in person and clothing.