Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — Public Schools Have Now Completed Half Year. [ARTICLE]

Public Schools Have Now Completed Half Year.

Yesterday ended the first half of the school This week has been taken up with examinations and tests and the teachers are busy jnaking out records and reports of work done. The exemption system introduced last year has been\ a means of increasing the scholarship to a very noticeable degree in the high school, and this 'year a similiar plan was put into operation in the grammer school. The results are very commendable in that building. Briefly the plan is this: All pupils making a grade of 91 in deportment are exempt from the final examinations in the subjects where the grade is 91. As a result, Quite a number have had a little vacation while the rest have been taking their examinations. The term deportment means many other things besides conduct, such as interest in school, application to work, etc. In order to allow teachers to get all work attended to by Monday there was no school Friday afternoon, as was the custom last year. The cards will be sent out the first of next week. Miss Alice White, of Union Mills, Ind., has been employed by the board as English teacher and will commence Monday.