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Excerpt from Rules and Regulations: For the Government of the County High Schools of Alabama; With Course of Study and List of d104 Books, for These Schools 6. It shall be the duty of the principal and assistants in each county high school to follow faithfully the course of study prescribed by the Superintendent of Education, in accordance with section 1866 of the Code. This course of study shall be a four year course and shall be based on an elementary course of seven grades or years. 7. If the county board of education deems it expedient to allow the seventh grade to be taught in the county high school building as a preparatory grade to the regular high school course, as outlined by the High School Commission, such may be done, provided all teachers of this grade are elected and their salaries fixed in the same manner as the county high school teachers, and the necessary funds required to maintain this grade, in the way of salaries, incidentals, etc., are provided for by the county board of education and other local authorities; and provided further, the teachers and pupils of this grade shall be under the direct supervision of the principal and governed in accordance with the rules and regulations made by the High School Commission. 8. The county high school shall begin its annual session at such date as may be fixed by the county board of education. 9. The session of the county high schools shall be nine scholastic months (thirty-six weeks). The session is divided into two terms of four and one-half months each, and at the end of each term a general written examination shall be given to the pupils on the branches studied during the preceding term. 10. The holder of an unexpired second grade certificate issued by the State Board of Examiners or a written statement from a teacher who holds a first grade certificate issued by the State Board of Examiners, stating that the holder has taken the elementary course of study as prescribed by the Department of Education in his or her school and has passed a satisfactory examination on these branches through the seventh grade, shall be entitled to entrance in the county high school without further examination. Every applicant who is not eligible to entrance without examination as stated in this rule shall be required by the principal and teachers of the county high school to stand a satisfactory written entrance examination on the branches included in the elementary course of seven years' work. Each applicant shall be required to make not less than 50 per cent. on each elementary branch and his general average shall be not less than 75 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.