1. To teach diligently and faithfully all the
branches required to be taught in the School, according to the terms
of his engagement with the Trustees, and according to the rules and
regulations adopted by the Board of Education:
2. To keep daily, weekly, and monthly
registers of the School:
3. To maintain proper order and discipline in
his School, according to the authorized forms and regulations:
4. To keep a visitor's book (which the
Trustees shall provide) and enter therein the visits made to his
School, and to present such a book to such visitor, and request him to
make therein any remarks suggested by his visit:
5. At all times when desired by them, to give
to Trustees and visitors access to the registers and visitor's book
appertaining to the School, and upon his leaving the School to deliver
up the same to the order of the Trustees:
6. To have, at the end of each half-year,
public examinations of his School, of which he shall give due notice
to the Trustees of the School, and through his pupils to their parents
and guardians:
7. To furnish to the Superintendent of
Education, when desired, any information which it may be in his power
to give respecting anything connected with the operation of his
school, or in anywise affecting its interests or character:
8. To classify the pupils according to their
respective abilities:
9. To observe, and impress upon the minds of
the pupils, the great rule of regularity and order,-A TIME AND PLACE
FOR EVERYTHING, AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PROPER TIME AND PLACE:
10. To promote, both by precept and example,
CLEANLINESS, NEATNESS, and DECENCY. To personally inspect the children
every morning, to see that they have their hands and faces washed,
their hair combed, and clothes clean. The school apartments, too,
should be swept and dusted every evening:
11. To pay the strictest attention to the
morals and general conduct of the pupils; to omit no opportunity of
inculcating the principles of TRUTH and HONESTY; the duties of respect
to superiors, and obedience to all persons placed in authority over
them:
12. To evince a regard for the improvement
and general welfare of the pupils; to treat them with kindness,
combined with firmness; and to aim at governing them by their
affections and reason rather than harshness and severity:
13. To cultivate kindly and affectionate
feelings among the pupils; to discountenance quarrelling, cruelty to
animals, and every approach to vice:
14. To practice such discipline in school as
would be exercised by a judicious parent in the family, avoiding
corporal punishment, except when it shall appear to him to be
imperatively necessary; and then a record of the offence and the
punishment shall be made in the school register for the inspection of
trustees and visitors:
15. No teacher shall compel the services of
pupils for his own private benefit or convenience:
16. For gross misconduct, or a violent or
willful opposition to authority, the teacher may suspend a pupil from
attending school, forthwith informing the parent or guardian of the
fact, and the reason of it; but no pupil shall be expelled without the
authority of the trustees:
17. When the example of any pupil is very
hurtful, and reformation appears hopeless, it shall be the duty of the
teacher, with the approbation of the trustees, to expel such pupil
from the school; but any pupil under the public censure, who shall
express to the teacher his regret for such a course of conduct, as
openly and explicitly as the case may require, shall, with the
approbation of the trustees and teacher, be re-admitted to the school.
