Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1876 — School Rules. [ARTICLE]

School Rules.

The following rules were adopted December 25th, 1875, by Messrs. M. F. Chilcote, J. Healey, and R. Fendig, trustees, for the government of the Rensselaer public schools: ' Pupils are required to be punctual ami regular in .attendance anil at recitation; to deVote their time exclusively to the proper duties of the school-room; to occupy, such a seat as the teacher shall assign; to provide themselves with such books and utensils, and pursue such studies as the Superintendent or School Board shall direct. Any pupil who shall be absent five halfdays or tardy five times in any one term without satisfactory excuse from parent or guardian, shall be suspended from the privileges of the school; and no pupil thus suspended shall be restored until satisfactory assurance shall have been given that the attendance will be punctual in the future, and permission be obtained from the Superintendent of School Board. Upon the return of the.pupil after any absence an excuse will be required from the parent or guardian in person or in writing, assigning a reason for the same. If it shall have been caused by the sickness of the pupil, or the family, or other urgent necessity, the absence shall be excused, and so marked in the register for that day. Pupils must walk quietly and in single file through the halls and up and down, the stairs, and not remain in the halls or stairways at any time when their school rooms are open. They must make no loud noise in any part of the building at any time, must retrain from all conversation in halls or stairways after the first bell, and not go into rooms belonging to other departments without permission from a teacher.

If any injury shall be done to any school building or any building, thereto belonging, such pupil or his parent or guardian shall cause immediate compensention to be made, otherwise the pupil shall be suspended from the school ; and any puoil who shall anywhere on or around the school premises use or write any profane or unchaste language, or draw any obscene picture, or cut, mark, oi deface any school furniture, or building, or any property whatever belonging to the school estate, shall be punished in proportion to the extent of the offence, and—shall be liable to the civil law. Pupils must be careful to clean all mud and dirt from their feet before entering the schoolroom; must keep their seats, desks, and the floor about them, tidy; must be cleanly in person and clothing, gentlemanly and ladylike in deportment towards one another, and obedient and respectful to teSC'hers. Pupils ate required to obey these regulations promptly, and all rules of order establhlfcd by the Superintendent or tencher for their conduct in the school-room, in the hall, or about the school ground. Pupils shall not be allowed to assemble about the school-premises at unreasonable hours before the commencement of school, nor to remain after the dismissal of the same.

Our Brook correspondent says that a shooting match at Salem school house, Newton county, held December 31st, resulted in a general knock down and drag-out, with mashed noses and peeled heads ; one lawsuit has followed and still the end has not been reached. A number of new babies are reported in and about Brook. Storekeepers suffer in purse because the roads are so bad they can not have their goods brought to them. Business dull since holiday 8.