REDUCE SCHOOL TERM
TEN MONTHS TO NINE
SUPT. RECOMMENDS
SUGGESTS HIGH SCHOOL QUAR
TERS BE MOVED BACK TO
GRADE BUILDINGS
ELIMINATE JUNIORS, SENIORS
Favors Prohibiting Teachers From
Engaging In Other Gainful
Occupations
Recommending that the Seward
school term be reduced from ten
months to nine months, the normal
length of school terms elsewhere,
thereby saving the city the sum of
at least $1,400 per annum; cutting
down the high school faculty staff,
eliminating the junior and senior
classes and move the high school
back to the grade school building;
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and prohibiting teachers to engage in
any other gainful occupation, are
the high-lights in the recommenda
tions for the Seward schools for the
year 1926-1927, as submitted to the
City Council by Guy D. Barnett,
school superintendent, persuant to
their request. The recommendations
were read at last evening’s council
meeting. The report was ordered
filed, following its reading and the |
clerk was instructed to write Mr.
Barnett, in behalf of the City Coun
cil. a vote of thanks.
The report is printed intact, as fol
lows:
I. It is recommended that the
length of the term of school be re
duced from a ten month to a nine
month term.
(1) The adopted course of study
for Alaska can be very easily and
thoroughly covered in nine months,
especially when the grade enrollment
is so low as at present, which enables
pupils to receive more individual in
struction than if the enrollment were
O'
heavy. Under the present system the
last few weeks axe not productive of
ITEM ORDERS
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALA8KA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the seoond and
fourth Mondays of each
I month in Odd Fellows'
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:0Q
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Sigrid E. Merritt, sec’y.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
in g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
JL Stated communications first
^«Mfand third Wednesdays of each
f\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
^■^08:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
the good results obtained during the
middle of the year.
(2) The ten month term as now
used is divided as follows:
a. —36 weeks Instruction, which
is the normal school term.
b. —One week teacher institute in
S. E. Alaska and which is not at
tended to any extent by teachers in
S. W. Alaska because of inconveni
ence and expense. (On pay.)
c. —Two weeks Christmas holi
day. (On pay.)
d. —One week Easter vacation.
(On pay.)
During the past year Seward used
the institute "week in regular instruc
tion and also reduced the Christmas
vacation to one week, making a total
of 36 weeks instruction and two of
vacation. This seemed better than
permitting too long a break in school
work. With no more holiday activity
than occurs in Seward, two weeks at
Christmas is a waste of time. It
seems that for the past two years,
the week vacation at Easter w*as not
used by the pupils for the observance
of religious ceremonies for which the
week is intended. The break in in
struction was a distinct obstacle in
classroom work. The elimination of
these idle periods and consequent
shortening of the school term will be
educationally advantageous and fin
ancially economical.
3. The normal length of the school
term in all the states is nine months.
’ or 3S wte of chwwroo'B: ixtvsroctkm.
and one wwk for ChrjstMs fbe Ik
ter being bo; ot pet. arraape
ment permits teachers to patent nae
MT school tor professional aco
rn en: and it docs not kwf the pop-::
in school too late in the spring tr do
detriment oT their school ideals arc
of their health This year Sswa-x
ends the school year on June llth.
three weekf later than the normal
closing tin* In the states and at a
time which makes summe- school a»
>
tendance an impossibility. Anchor
ape, foT example, is on a nine month
basis with & week Chris*iaah. not or.
pay, and their term ends Alar 21si
They will hare completed the cours<
of study as prescribed, ait hour! their
teaching load, 'per teacher is almost
three times that of Seward.
(3) The return to a nine month
basis, eliminating the four weeks
idle time on full pay. win represen
a savin? of Sl~4(i in teacher salaries
for the month and approximately fa?w
foT janitorial and maintenance costs,
or a Total of approximately 51.4%. al
though tht same amount of work will
have been accomplished and jest as
i satisfactorily as at present:.
FI. It is recommended that the
high school teaching forces be re
! duced from three teachers including
principal, to a principal and ore
' teacher.
(1) A survey of students show*
: that at the opening of school next
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