School Credit for Home Work - L. R. Alderman

In order that the school and home may unite forces, that the school may help in establishing habits of home-making, and that our boys and girls may be taught that their parents are their best friends and need their help, the following system of credits has been devised for use in the schools of Pend Oreille County.

Certificate of Promotion with Distinction

Any pupil who has completed the work of his grade in a satisfactory manner is entitled to PROMOTION WITH CREDIT to the next higher grade, provided he obtains 300 points for Home Work. He is entitled to PROMOTION WITH HONOR if he earns 500 points.

Six weeks' faithful and regular performance of the home duties listed below will entitle the pupil to credit as indicated.

		Points
1.	Sawing, splitting, and carrying in wood and kindling	25
2.	Building fires or tending furnace	20
3.	Caring for horse or cow and doing other barn chores	15
4.	Caring for poultry and gathering eggs	10
5.	Working in the school or home garden, or on the farm	20
6.	Delivering milk or carrying water	20
7.	Running errands cheerfully	10
8.	Doing without being told	20
9.	Mowing the lawn	20
10.	Feeding pigs	10
11.	Making a bird-house and feeding the birds	20
12.	Making useful piece of woodwork for the home	25
13.	Cleaning barn	20
14.	Churning	15
15.	Turning Cream Separator	10
16.	Retiring at nine o'clock or before	10
17.	Bathing at least twice each week	15
18.	Sleeping in fresh air	15
19.	Getting up in the morning without being called	10
20.	Preparing one meal alone daily for the family	25
21.	Blacking stove	10
22.	Helping with the breakfast, and with the dishes after breakfast	15
23.	Preparing smaller children for school	10
24.	Not being tardy	10
25.	Cleaning teeth daily	20
26.	Making own graduating dress—Eighth Grade	30
27.	Writing weekly letter to some absent relative—Grandmother preferred	20
28.	Reading and reporting on one approved library book	20
29.	Reading aloud fifteen minutes or longer each night to some member or members of the family circle	20
30.	Practicing music lesson thirty minutes daily	25
31.	Building fence, 10 rods	20
	Fence may be built at intervals during any one period of six weeks.
32.	Clearing ¹⁄₄ Acre of land	30
	Land may be cleared any time during the school year and at different times provided the ¹⁄₄ A. is completed before school closes.
33.	Care of younger children	20
34.	Raising one fourth acre of vegetables	20
35.	Taking sole care of plants and flowers	15
36.	Sweeping floor and dusting furniture	10
37.	Making beds	10
38.	Mopping and caring for kitchen	10
39.	Scouring and cleaning bath tub and lavatory	15
40.	Helping with the washing	20
41.	Sprinkling and ironing clothes	25
42.	Making and baking bread, biscuits or cake. Exhibit	25
43.	Setting table and serving	15
44.	Helping cook supper and helping do the dishes after supper	20
45.	Doing own mending	20
46.	Learning to knit or crochet	15
47.	Raising six varieties of flowers	15
48.	Making piece of hand-work for the home	25
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	Total	840

Certificate of Promotion with Distinction

—————— having completed the work of the —— Grade in the Pend Oreille County Schools, in a satisfactory manner, and having earned —— points in our Home and Outside Industrial Work Plan, is hereby promoted to the —— Grade with ———— and is commended for Industry, Fidelity to Home and Cheerful Helpfulness.

Given at Newport, Washington, this ———— day of ——, 191 .

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Superintendent. Teacher.