School Credit for Home Work - L. R. Alderman

		1st	2d	3d	4th	Total
		week	week	w eek	week

1.	Carrying wood	1	...	...	1	2
2.	Feeding horse	...	...	...	...	...
3.	Feeding cow	14	14	14	14	56
4.	Feeding pigs	5	3	14	14	36
5.	Feeding chickens	...	...	1	3	4
6.	Milking cow	42	56	43	50	160
7.	Cleaning stable	7	3	6	6	22
8.	Washing dishes	1	...	...	...	1
9.	Drying dishes	2	1	...	...	3
10.	Making bed	...	2	...	2	4
11.	Sweeping room	3	...	...	5	8
12.	Setting table	8	5	4	2	19
13.	Clearing table	1	1	...	1	3
14.	Tidiness	7	7	5	6	25
15.	Brushing teeth	5	2	2	4	13
16.	Cleaning nails	6	2	2	4	14
		——	——	——	——	——
	Total	...	...	...	...	370

No. 14 includes general tidiness, hanging hat and coat, putting
away clothes, shoes, stockings, etc., and will be given
more credit than any other one duty. Parents should use care
in marking this number, as the aim is to inculcate habits of
neatness and thoughtful consideration of others. This end
can easily be defeated by careless or unfair marking.
I hereby certify that the above record is true and correct.

Mrs. J. E. Allen (Parent or Guardian.)

At the close of a later letter Mr. Davis wrote:—

From my experience with this experiment I feel that the plan is worth all it costs and more, that it should be extended to include all the grades, that modifications to meet the needs of different communities can easily be made, and that the pupils and patrons of any district will appreciate and support some such plan if it is carried out faithfully. I kept a ledger account with every child, and at the end of the month posted a bulletin exhibiting the condition of each pupil's account. The interest was shown by the manner in which they gathered about the board and compared their credits. Some of the comments upon some lazy boy's or girl's lack of effort were rather caustic, but served as effective spurs to the delinquent.

In Pend Oreille County, Washington, six weeks is the unit of time for credit records. Miss Hester C. Soules, the County Superintendent, has issued the following circular:—

THE HOME WE WORK TOGETHER THE SCHOOL
SCHOOL CREDIT FOR HOME WORK