These rules are printed on the back of each home credit record card:—

Rules governing Credit for Home Work

Every Friday afternoon a home work record slip will be given to each pupil. Beginning with Sunday, all time spent by the pupil in home work should be entered in the proper space.

Each Monday morning a slip filled during the previous week should be returned to the teacher. The slip must be signed by the parent or guardian as an assurance that a correct record has been kept.

Any work not listed but of value to the parents may be counted, and the nature of the work specified in the blank spaces.

At the close of the school month, when the report of school work is made out, in the column "Home Work," the pupil will be marked on the scale of 100 for actual work of not less than one half-hour each day, and in the column "Personal Care" on the scale of 100 for numbers A, B, C, and D, and for attendance at church or Sunday school.

In addition to credit on the report card, reward may be given at the option of the principal for a specified amount of time spent in useful work at home.

For purpose of reward credit of five minutes a day will be allowed for each operation listed as A, B, C, and D, and twenty minutes for attendance at church or Sunday school.

The Portland home work record slips are printed by the city office, and furnished to teachers who wish to use them. On pages 115, 117, and 119 are given home credit records of Portland children, showing the class of home work they are doing. A swift review of a child's record gives the teacher a pretty accurate estimate of his home environment.

Elsie G., whose card is shown, has kept weekly records of her work for more than a year. She and some of the other girls make it a practice to help Miss Wright, their teacher, enroll the records for the class. The method of crediting is extremely simple, but it seems to work. The pupils return the filled-out slips the first of every week; at the end of each month the girls count the slips, and for every pupil who has brought in four slips they register one credit in the book. Miss Wright looks over the cards as they come in, and often makes comment on the work, to the individual, or to the class as a whole.

Home Work Record of

Elsie G——.

For week ending December 19, 1913.

Sun.Mon.Tues.Wed.Thur.Fri.Sat.
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Min.Min.Min.Min.Min.Min.Min.
1.Work in garden........................
2.Splitting kindlings........................
3.Bringing in fuel........................
4.Milking cow........................
5.Care of horse........................
6.Preparing meals...251525252520135
11+3322
7.Washing dishes202515151520...200
8.Sweeping........................
9.Dusting15...............1530
10.Bedroom work......101015102065
11.Washing........................
12.Ironing........................
13.Care of baby30604560604560350
A.Bathingxxxxxxx...
B.Brushing teethxxxxxxx...
C.Sleeping with open windowsxxxxxxx...
D.Going to bed before 9 o'clock...xxxxxx...
E.Attending Church or Sunday School........................
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Total 790