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 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 
 COLORED SCHOOLS 
 
 ASBINGTON AND GEORGETOWN, 
 
 OCTOBER, 18 7O. 
 
 WASHINGTON CITY: 
 
 M'QILL & WITHEROW, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPEKS. 
 1870. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
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 TRUSTEES 
 
 OP 
 
 COLOEED SCHOOLS 
 
 OF 
 
 WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN, 
 
 OCTOBER, 187O. 
 
 WASHINGTON 'CITY: 
 
 M'GILL & WITHEROW, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS. 
 1870.. ' ' 
 
THE 
 
 d of ffrustees 0f Colored Schools of JuJasMngion and 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C., October 21, 18TO. 
 
 The following Kules and Regulations, for the government 
 of the Superintendent, Teachers, and Schools under the 
 supervision of this Board, were adopted at a meeting held 
 "Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870. 
 
 ATTEST: W. H. ASHBUETON WOEMLEY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
EULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 DUTIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 1. The Superintendent, as executive agent of the Board of 
 Trustees, is charged with the duty of seeing that all rules 
 and regulations adopted by the Board for the government of 
 the teachers and the schools are faithfully observed. All 
 school-houses, with their furniture, apparatus, and grounds, 
 are placed under his supervision. He shall visit all schools 
 under the jurisdiction of the Trustees as often as practicable, 
 and is authorized to correct any violation of rule that he may 
 observe, and report the same to the Trustees. He shall no- 
 tify the Trustees of any needed repairs or supplies, and take 
 such measures to provide the same as they may direct. 
 
 2. He is also charged with the direction, subject to the 
 approval of the Trustees, of all that pertains to the course 
 of instruction in the several grades of schools, the text-books 
 used, the methods of teaching and of discipline employed, 
 and the classification, examination, promotion, suspension, 
 expulsion, or restoration of pupils. The Trustees, in investi- 
 gating these matters, will first advise with the Superintend- 
 ent. He shall advise and direct the teachers in regard to 
 modes of instruction and discipline in all cases where it may 
 be deemed useful, endeavoring to secure the adoption of the 
 best methods, with uniformity of classification, in all the 
 schools. Arid if he shall find any teacher incompetent or 
 indisposed to discharge her duties in a reasonably satisfac- 
 tory manner, he shall report the case to the Trustees for their 
 action. 
 
 3. The Superintendent shall have power to call meetings 
 of the teachers for conference and instruction relative to 
 their duties as often as he may deem desirable, and he is 
 authorized to suspend the schools for that purpose, not ex- 
 ceeding one half day in each month. 
 
 4. It shall be his duty to acquaint himself with all princi- 
 
pies and facts pertaining to the subject of popular education, 
 and with any improvements in organization, or modes of 
 instruction and discipline, that may be adopted in public 
 schools elsewhere, in order that he may be able to suggest 
 appropriate means for the advancement of the schools under 
 his charge. He will be expected to attend all meetings of 
 the Board of Trustees when invited, and to give information 
 relative to the condition of the schools, and to suggest any 
 changes that may be needed, when called upon. 
 
 5. The Superintendent shall, in conjunction with such 
 committee as the Trustees may appoint, assist in the exam- 
 ination of all candidates for the position of teacher, and 
 shall sign the certificates of those who are accepted. No 
 application will be considered from a married person, or 
 from one under eighteen' years of age. He shall also keep 
 a register of the names and addresses of all applicants for 
 teacherships, with such information as he may possess rela- 
 tive to their qualifications, which register shall be at all times 
 open to the inspection of the Trustees. 
 
 6. He shall see that the monthly and other reports re- 
 quired of the teachers are promptly and accurately rendered 
 by them, and that summaries of the same are prepared each 
 month for the use of the Trustees; and he shall prepare and 
 submit to the Trustees, as early as practicable after the close 
 of the school year, a report of the condition of the schools, 
 embracing a summary of the statistics gathered, with such 
 suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper. 
 
 7. The Superintendent shall take special note of the sani- 
 tary condition of all school-rooms, and their appurtenances, 
 and see that proper measures are taken to remedy any neg- 
 lect of proper ventilation, of cleanliness, or of the physical 
 comfort of the pupils or teachers. He shall also consult 
 with the Trustees in relation to the erection of any new school 
 building, and suggest such plans, with reference to conve- 
 nience^health, and economy of construction, as he may judge 
 best. 
 
 8. The Superintendent shall make investigation as to the 
 number and condition of colored children, in the cities of 
 Washington and Georgetown, who are not receiving the 
 benefits'of the Public Schools, and shall present to the 
 Trustees the results of his inquiries in his ^annual report, 
 with suggestions as to the remedy of the evil. 
 
 9. The. Superintendent is authorized to grant permits, 
 subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, to pupils 
 resident in one .school district to attend school in another, 
 
when good and sufficient reasons for the change shall be 
 made to appear. 
 
 10. He is authorized to permit the closing of a school for 
 the purpose of allowing the teacher to visit other schools, or 
 for other satisfactory reasons, not exceeding one day at a 
 time; and in case such permission is given by the Trustees, 
 they will cause information of the same to be promptly sent 
 to the Superintendent. 
 
 11. The Superintendent shall preserve at the office of the 
 Board complete lists of the books, maps, charts, globes, 
 clocks, chairs, bells, settees, mats, keys, &c., belonging to 
 the several schools, copies of which lists shall be furnished 
 to the several teachers in charge, and at the close of each 
 school year he shall cause a careful comparison of these lists 
 to be made with the articles on hand. In case any article 
 should have been destroyed or be missing, he shall require 
 of the teacher a written statement of the circumstances at- 
 tending its destruction or loss, to be laid before the Trustees. 
 
 12. The Superintendent shall have regular office hours, 
 other than school hours, at such place as the Trustees shall 
 provide; and he shall see that all registers, books of record, 
 blanks and forms required for the use of teachers, and all 
 articles of stationery, &c., supplied by the Trustees, are pre- 
 pared and ready to be furnished as needed. He shall also 
 perform any other duties pertaining to the management of 
 the schools which the Board of Trustees may require. 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 1. The cities of Washington and Georgetown are divided 
 into five school districts, as follows: 
 
 First District. The First and Second Wards, embracing 
 all that part of Washington west of Tenth street and north 
 of the Canal, also the part north of Rhode Island avenue 
 and east of Tenth street. 
 
 Second District. The Third and Fourth Wards, including 
 that part of Washington east of Tenth street, and Khocle 
 Island avenue, north of the Canal, to Third street west, and 
 west of Third street to D north, north of D street to Mary- 
 land avenue, atid north of Maryland avenue to the eastern 
 boundary. 
 
 Third District. The Fifth and Sixth Wards, (Capitol Hill 
 and Navy Yard,) bounded on the west by South Capitol 
 street, the Canal and Third street west; on the north by 
 
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 north D street and Maryland avenue; and on the east and 
 south by the Anacostia river. 
 
 Fourth District. The Seventh "Ward, (Island,) embracing 
 all south of the Canal and west of South Capitol street. 
 
 Fifth District. Georgetown. 
 
 2. Pupils will be required, as far as practicable, to attend 
 school in the districts where they reside; but permits to go 
 elsewhere will be given by the Superintendent or Trustees 
 for good reasons,. 
 
 SCHOOL HOURS AND RECESSES. 
 
 3. School exercises shall commence punctually at 9 o'clock 
 in the morning and close at 3 o'clock p. m. ; but the younger 
 pupils in the primary classes may, at the discretion of their 
 teachers and the principals, be dismissed at 2 o'clock. This 
 rule will not be construed to prohibit a teacher from detain- 
 ing pupils until a later hour for purposes of discipline or to 
 make up neglected lessons. 
 
 4. During the forenoon a recess of fifteen minutes shall 
 be given at 10J o'clock: Provided, That the grammar and 
 intermediate classes may substitute for this recess physical 
 exercises in their rooms, at the discretion of their teachers. 
 These exercises must be of an orderly character, as prescribed 
 in Mason's Manual or some similar work. 
 
 5. A recess of thirty minutes shall be given at 12 m., at 
 which pupils will not be allowed to go to their homes with- 
 out special permission of their teachers, and then only on 
 condition of returning in time. 
 
 6. No change in the school session in inclement weather 
 is allowed, (unless by special permission of the Trustees or 
 Superintendent, in extraordinary cases;) but pupils will not 
 be required to spend the recesses out of doors to the exposure 
 of their health. 
 
 VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS. 
 
 7. Every Saturday. 
 
 The Christmas Holidays, from December 25th to January 
 1st, inclusive. 
 
 The 22d of February. 
 
 Good Friday and Easter Monday. 
 
 National Thanksgiving and Fast Days. 
 
 From the 1st of July to the first Monday in September. 
 
 No other holidays will be granted, except by special per- 
 mission of the Trustees. 
 
DUTIES OF TEACHERS. 
 
 8. To acquaint themselves with the Regulations. Teachers are 
 required to make themselves familiar with these Eegulations, 
 especially such as relate to their own duties, and to see that 
 the same are faithfully observed. 
 
 9. Opening of School-Rooms. Teachers are required to be 
 at their school-rooms at least fifteen minutes before 9 o'clock 
 in the morning, at which time the doors shall be opened for 
 the admission of pupils. They will cause a bell to be rung 
 at least three minutes before 9, as a signal for assembling, 
 and will close the doors precisely at 9 o'clock. After the 
 recesses, they will cause a bell to be rung at least three min- 
 utes before the time for closing the doors. 
 
 10. In case of Detention. In case of detention by sickness, 
 or absence from any unavoidable cause, immediate notice 
 should be sent in writing to the principal of the schools with 
 which the teacher is connected, (if such there be,) and in 
 case the absence is prolonged beyond a day, notice must also 
 be sent in writing to the Superintendent. 
 
 11. Records, fc., to be kept. In each school a record of ad- 
 missions and discharges ; a register for marking attendance, 
 scholarship, and deportment; a diary for obtaining the 
 monthly summaries; a memorandum of the teacher's time 
 in school; and a record of visits, shall be carefully kept, in 
 the form prescribed by the Superintendent. These records 
 shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees 
 and Superintendent, and at the close of the school year shall 
 be deposited with the officer last named for preservation. 
 
 12. Monthly Reports. A report of each school, in such 
 form as the Superintendent may prescribe, shall be mad6 at 
 the end of every month; and the monthly salary of the 
 teacher will not be considered as due until such report is 
 rendered in proper form. 
 
 13. Supply of Stationery. A reasonable amount of station- 
 ery, consisting of chalk, pens, ink, and paper, for the teach- 
 er's use, will be furnished each school, on application to the 
 Superintendent. Applications for such supplies will be made 
 in all cases in writing, through the principals of the several 
 schools, who will, if approved, transmit them to the Super- 
 intendent on Friday of each week. 
 
 14. Supply of Books, c. Teachers will use all proper ef- 
 forts to induce pupils or their parents to procure the ueces- 
 
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 sary books and utensils for use in school, and will not allow 
 pupils to remain in school unprovided with these. 
 
 14. Course of Study and Text-Books. The teachers shall 
 conform to such course of instruction in their classes as shall 
 be prescribed by the Trustees, and shall use only such text- 
 books as they may direct. 
 
 16. Opening Exercises. Each school shall be opened in the 
 morning with reading a portion of the Bible by the teacher, 
 which may be followed by the repetition of the Lord's Prayer. 
 During these exercises the door shall be closed and no pupil 
 admitted. 
 
 17. Physical Health. Teachers will give constant attention 
 to the physical welfare and comfort of their pupils, instruct- 
 ing them to avoid injurious practices; regulating, as far as 
 practicable, the ventilation and temperature of their rooms; 
 taking care that pupils are not kept too long in one position, 
 nor deprived of a due amount of exercise in the open air. 
 Pupils must not be kept in at recess for purposes of dis- 
 cipline without being allowed a suitable amount of time sub- 
 sequently for out-door exercise. "When, from any cause, it 
 shall be impracticable to take the recesses out of doors, the 
 pupils shall be exercised in their rooms with open windows. 
 Weakly and studious children should be objects of special 
 care, lest their minds be developed at the expense of their 
 bodies. 
 
 18. Moral Culture. Teachers are required to give careful 
 attention to the moral culture of their pupils, instructing 
 them to avoid the evils of falsehood, profanity, idleness, dis- 
 obedience, and every wicked and disgraceful practice; and 
 inculcate the virtues of truthfulness, honesty, industry, clean- 
 liness, respect for parents and teachers, obedience to law, 
 and the practice of the golden rule. 
 
 19. Religious Culture. Teachers will also endeavor judi- 
 ciously to educate the religious faculties of their pupils, by 
 leading them to love and revere the Great Parent of all, and 
 to recognize His goodness, wisdom, and present power in the 
 objects and phenomena of nature; but they will carefully 
 avoid all sectarian instruction. 
 
 20. Discipline. The teachers shall aim to practice such 
 discipline in their schools as a kind, firm, and judicious pa- 
 rent would use in his family ; and they shall avoid corporal 
 punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved 
 by milder measures. Each case of corporal punishment, 
 with the reasons therefor, shall be reported to the Super- 
 intendent. They are enjoined to avoid all appearance of 
 
anger or haste in inflicting punishment, and to carefully 
 refrain from blows that may cause permanent or serious 
 injury. A frequent resort to or reliance upon corporal pun- 
 ishment will be regarded as an evidence of unfitness for the 
 position of teacher; and. any teacher known to inflict need- 
 less violence upon a pupil will be promptly dismissed by the 
 Trustees. Teachers will, as far as practicable, make the ac- 
 quaintance of the parents of their pupils, and secure their 
 cooperation in the promotion of good discipline, and of 
 punctuality and regularity of attendance at school. 
 
 21. Programme of Exercises. Each teacher will prepare, 
 and place where it may be conveniently inspected by the 
 Superintendent and Trustees, a programme of the exercises 
 and recitations of each day in the week, specifying the 
 length of time allotted to each; and this programme should 
 be adhered to with all practicable regularity. 
 
 22. Number of Pupils in a School. The number of pupils 
 in any school shall not exceed sixty for each teacher, and 
 this number may be reduced at the discretion of the Super- 
 intendent or Trustees. 
 
 23. Vaccination. Pupils will not be admitted who have 
 not been vaccinated or otherwise protected against small- 
 pox. 
 
 24. Age of Pupils. Children under six or over seventeen 
 years of age will not be received as pupils to the exclusion 
 of any between those ages. 
 
 25. Admission of Pupils from other Schools. "No pupil who 
 has been attending a public school shall be admitted into 
 another public school without a certificate of transfer or 
 honorable discharge from the school last attended, except 
 by written permission of the Superintendent or Trustees. 
 Teachers will take great care not to receive pupils who may have 
 left other schools without permission, or who have been suspended 
 or expelled. 
 
 26. Pupils not to be sent on Private Errands.- Teachers are 
 not "allowed to send their pupils on errands during school 
 hours, except on urgent school business. 
 
 27. Reading, Sewing, $c., not allowed. The reading of news- 
 papers, magazines, etc., prolonged conversation with other 
 teachers or with visitors, writing letters, sewing, or any other 
 occupation which distracts the teacher's mind from her du- 
 ties in school hours, is not allowed. 
 
 28. Responsibility of Teachers. Each teacher is responsible 
 for the care of the furniture and other school property under 
 her charge, and will take special care to preserve the new 
 
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 desks from injury of any kind. Each teacher is also ex- 
 pected to maintain order and discipline in her own room, 
 and where several schools are grouped in one building, all 
 the teachers will cooperate with the principal in maintaining 
 order in the halls, upon the stairways and platforms, and in 
 the neighborhood of the building. 
 
 29. Order in the School Rooms. Teachers will not admit 
 pupils into the school rooms, nor allow them to remain in at 
 recess, except in charge of some proper person to maintain 
 order; and no play or boisterousness will at any time be al- 
 lowed in the school rooms or buildings. 
 
 30. Order in the vicinity of the School-Mouses. Teachers will, 
 as far as possible, prevent any noisy assemblages of pupils 
 at or near the school-houses, before or after school, and will 
 require all pupils to leave the premises immediately after the 
 close of school. 
 
 31. Attendance on Teachers' Meetings. All teachers are 
 required to attend such meetings for conference and instruc- 
 tion relative to their duties as the Superintendent may call, 
 dismissing their schools for that purpose when so directed. 
 
 32. Visiting other Schools. Teachers may close their schools, 
 for half a day at a time, with the permission of the Super- 
 intendent, for the purpose of visiting other schools, to ob- 
 serve different modes of instruction and discipline; such 
 visits not to occupy more than three half days in the school 
 year. . 
 
 33. Promotions and Admissions. Promotions from one 
 school to another will be made only at the beginning of a 
 month, except by direction of the Superintendent, and new 
 pupils will not be admitted after the first Monday in the 
 month, unless by special permission of the Superintendent 
 or Trustees. 
 
 Duties of Principals. Where two or more teachers are em- 
 ployed in one building, one of the number will be designated 
 by the Trustees to act as principal. The special duties of 
 the principal will be to have a general oversight of the halls, 
 stairways, platforms, school grounds, and out-buildings, for 
 the maintaining of proper order and discipline, in which she 
 will be at all times entitled to the efficient cooperation of her 
 associates. She will, in case of the absence of any teacher, 
 provide a monitor or substitute to act in the place of such 
 absentee, or will dismiss her pupils. She is also authorized 
 to see that proper order and discipline are maintained in all 
 the schools under her charge, and that the rules and regula- 
 tions of the Trustees are properly observed; and will report 
 
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 to the Trustees any case of inefficiency or neglect of duty on 
 the part of the other teachers or of the janitor. The prin- 
 cipal-will also attend to the examination and assignment to 
 their proper grades of all applicants for admission; and to 
 her will be referred all visitors and persons applying for in- 
 formation relative to the schools. She will also see that the 
 bells are rung at the proper moment for the assembling of 
 the pupils, and perform such other of the usual duties of a 
 principal as the Trustees may from time to time require. 
 
 RULES RELATIVE TO PUPILS. 
 
 35. General Deportment. Good order and propriety of de- 
 portment, not only during school hours, but in coming to 
 and leaving school, and cleanliness in person and attire, are 
 expected from all. Pupils are required to keep all books 
 clean, and the contents of desks neatly arranged; to enter 
 and leave the room in a respectful manner, and without 
 noise; and to quit the neighborhood of the school in a 
 quiet and orderly manner immediately on being dismissed. 
 
 3G. No pupil shall be allowed to throw pens, paper, or 
 anything whatever on the floor; to mark, cut, scratch, chalk, 
 or otherwise disfigure, or injure, any portion of the school 
 building, or anything connected with it; to use tobacco in 
 any form; to use a knife in school; to play at any game 
 within the school-room; to use any profane or indelicate lan- 
 guage; to nickname any person; to throw stones or other 
 missiles; to annoy or maltreat others; or do anything that 
 may disturb the neighborhood of the school. Any damage 
 done to the school buildings or furniture must be repaired 
 at the expense of the offender. 
 
 37. Suspension. The following shall be deemed sufficient 
 grounds, severally, for the suspension of a pupil from the 
 privileges of school by the teacher, viz: 
 
 Im moral conduct; 
 
 Violent or pointed opposition to authority in any particu- 
 lar instance; 
 - Persistent disobedience or disorder; 
 
 Habitual tardiness, truancy, or irregularity of attendance. 
 
 The teacher will immediately notify the parent or guard- 
 ian and the Superintendent of all cases of suspension, with 
 the reason therefor. 
 
 38. Restoration or Expulsion. Any pupil suspended under 
 the foregoing rule, who shall express to the teacher regret 
 
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 for his or her misconduct, as openly and explicitly as the 
 nature of the case may require, and shall give promise of 
 amendment, shall, with the consent of the Superintendent 
 or Trustees, be restored. Pupils thus suspended, and not 
 restored within five days, shall- be considered as expelled. 
 
 39. Forfeiture of Seat. Absence for four school days, or eight 
 half days, in any month, not caused fry sickness or the pre- 
 sence of a contagious disease in the family, (and not author- 
 ized by the Superintendent or Trustees,) or absence for twenty 
 successive school days for any cause, subjects the pupil to a 
 forfeiture of seat and suspension. 
 
 The parent or guardian shall in all cases be notified by 
 the teacher when two additional half days' absence of the 
 pupil will require suspension. 
 
 40. Re-entering. Pupils absent not more than twenty days 
 on account of sickness, and not more than three days for 
 other cause, may be allowed to re-enter on presenting proper 
 excuses. Those who have forfeited their seats under the 
 foregoing rule may be allowed to re-enter the school on the 
 first of the following month, on assurance of greater regu- 
 larity, and with the consent of the Superintendent or Trus- 
 tees : but they may be assigned to a lower class or grade, at 
 the discretion of the teacher. 
 
 41. No Admission to other Schools. ]N~o pupil, while sus- 
 pended, or after being expelled, can be admitted' into any 
 public school, except by special permission of the Superin- 
 tendent or Trustees. 
 
 42. Tardy Pupils and Excuses. Pupils who are not present 
 at the opening of school, either in the morning or after the 
 recesses, will not be admitted, without a satisfactory excuse 
 from the parent or guardian, or proper discipline for remiss- 
 ness. Excuses may be required in writing, at the discretion 
 of the teacher. 
 
 43. Certificates of Merit shall be given at the close of each 
 month to all pupils who have received full credits on the 
 register for attendance, scholarship, and deportment. 
 
 44. The Pupil's Duties to the Teacher are, obedience, respect, 
 and attention; industry, punctuality, and regularity; truth, 
 frankness, and honesty. Without these there can be neither 
 success in study nor the formation of that character which 
 it is the object of the school to promote. 
 
 45. The Pupil's Duties to the School are, kindness and pro- 
 priety of deportment and honesty towards his schoolmates, 
 with regularity of attendance, proper conduct on the way, 
 and a due regard for the character of the school. 
 
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 46. Each Teacher will keep a copy of the "Rules and Reg 
 ulations" in her school. 
 
 PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 47. A public examination of each school shall be made 
 before the close of the school year, under the direction of the 
 Superintendent, and all pupils absenting themselves from 
 such examination, without good cause, will be liable to sus- 
 pension or expulsion. 
 
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