Below is the Spokane County plan.

Bulletin for Teachers: Home Credits

The following are the rules and reward offered for home work. This work is to be done during the school week. No one is compelled to enter this contest and the pupil may drop out at any time.

All work must be voluntary on the part of the pupil. Parents are requested not to sign papers for pupils if the work is not voluntarily and cheerfully done.

The rewards for this work are:—

One half-holiday each month to the child who has earned one hundred or more home credits, and has not been absent or tardy for the month; also

5 per cent will be added to his final examination. The pupil who earns one hundred or more credits each month but fails in perfect attendance will have the 5 per cent added to his final examination.

In addition, the board of directors may offer a prize to the pupil in each grade who shall have the greatest amount of home credits, and shall be neither absent nor tardy during the term, or from the adoption of these rules.

List of Home Credits

Personal cleanliness2Retiring before 9 o'clock1
Cleaning teeth1Feeding and watering horses1
Practicing music lesson2Feeding and watering cows1
Dressing baby1Feeding and watering hogs1
Washing dishes1Gathering eggs1
Sweeping floor1Cleaning chicken house1
Making bed1Going for mail1
Preparing meal2Picking apples2
Making a cake1Picking potatoes2
Making biscuits1Bringing in wood for to-day1
Churning2Splitting wood for to-day1
Scrubbing floor2Bringing in water for to-day1
Dusting1Grooming horse1
Blacking stove1Milking cow1
Darning stockings1Working in field2
Delivering papers2Going for milk1