Manual of School Laws: For the Use of School Teachers and Officers in the State of Vermont

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Caledonia County Publishing Company, 1889 - Educational law and legislation - 197 pages
 

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Page 101 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 14 - ... the branches required by law to be taught in the Common Schools ; and a power of recalling them, in any of their parts, with a promptitude and certainty, hardly inferior to that with which he could tell his own name.
Page 163 - ... administered. On account of this difference of opinion, and the difficulty which exists in determining what is a reasonable punishment, and the advantage which the master has by being on the spot, to know all the circumstances, the manner, look, tone...
Page 101 - Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promoting — the cause of education throughout the country.5 Although the original statutory mandate to promote "the cause of education throughout the country...
Page 22 - ... may elect a successor, who shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities and duties as the agent originally elected.
Page 163 - Among reasonable persons much difference prevails as to the circumstances which will justify the infliction of punishment, and the extent to which it may properly be administered. On account of this difference of opinion, and the difficulty which exists in determining what is a reasonable punishment, and the advantage which the master has by being on the spot to know all the circumstances, the manner...
Page 30 - Subject to the foregoing provisions the ancillary receiver and his deputies shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties with respect to the administration of such assets, as a receiver of an insurer domiciled in this state.
Page 23 - Of the members first appointed one shall serve for one year, one for two years, and one for three years from the first day of...
Page 157 - The misbehavior must not have merely a remote and indirect tendency to injure the school. All improper conduct or language may perhaps have, by influence and example, a remote tendency of that kind. But the tendency of the acts so done out of the teacher's supervision for which he may punish must be direct and immediate in their bearing upon the welfare of the school, or the authority of the master and the respect due to him.
Page 157 - ... disgrace upon the master ; writings and pictures placed so as to suggest evil and corrupt language, images and thoughts to the youth who must frequent the school ; all such or similar acts tend directly to impair the usefulness of the school, the welfare of the scholars, and the authority of the master. By common consent and by the universal custom in our New England schools, the master has always been deemed to have the right to punish such offences.

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