CHAPTER XI. DUTIES OF TEACHERS. Rule 1. All teachers in the service of the School Department shall thoroughly familiarize themselves with these rules and regulations and observe them strictly and faithfully in every respect. Rule 2. Teachers shall not merely perform their duties in promoting the educational welfare of their pupils as required by the letter of these rules, but they shall know their subjects of instruction thoroughly, study and adopt the host methods of presenting them and cultivate a broad general knowledge. Rule 3. Teachers shall be in their respective school rooms at least fifteen minutes before the time for opening school. They shall carefully supervise the pupils in the yards, basements, halls, corridors, school rooms, and so far as possible on the way to and from school. Rule 4. Recognizing the principal as the head of his school, the teachers shall cooperate with the principal to harmonize the work of the school, to render the discipline strong and the methods of teaching uniform and effective. They shall recognize in a principal one chosen by the Board and the Superintendent to control the general policy of the school, and therefore entitled to the loyalty and help of his assistants. Rule 5. The teachers shall speak to their pupils in the English language in its, purity, and shall cultivate such purity of speech in their pupils. They shall teach neatness in care of desks, rooms, buildings, grounds, and in school work and personal habits. They shall teach thrift. They shall teach their pupils methods of study. They shall treat the children with patience and kindness, giving special attention to the dull and unfortunate. Rule 6. Teachers shall keep posted in or near their school rooms a program of the daily order of exercises which has been approved by the principal. Rule 7. Teachers shall attend all meetings called by the Superintendent or by supervisors and principals with his approval. Rule 8. Teachers shall not be absent from school, except in case of personal illness or death in the immediate family, unless permission has been obtained from the Superintendent, or in his absence, from the chairman of the proper district committee. In all cases of absence the teachers shall first notify the principal, and directly or through him the office of the Superintendent, at least forty minutes before the opening of the session so that a substitute may be provided. Rule 9. Teachers who are absent shall notify the substitute as to the time of their return. Failure to do this shall entitle the substitute who reported unnecessarily to one-half day's salary, same to he paid by the offending teacher. Rule 10. Teachers shall maintain thorough discipline and devote themselves during school hours exclusively to the duties of their profession. They shall also exercise due care to prevent injury to their school rooms, furniture, apparatus, books, and other property, and shall see that all windows in their respective rooms are closed at the end of each session. Rule 11. In every school shall be kept a register or card system in which shall be recorded the names, ages, dates of admission, dismissal and daily absences of pupils; and there shall be kept such other books, cards, and record systems showing the advancement of pupils and giving general information as may be directed by the Board and Superintendent. Rule 12. Teachers shall not tutor for pay any pupils of the public schools during school terms, without the written permission of the Superintendent. Rule 13. The time of the teachers at the school buildings shall not be taken by book agents and other canvassers; neither shall announcements, excepting of educational importance or advertisements, or photographing of schools, or solicitations of money be permitted in the schools without authority from the Superintendent and the chairman of the district committee. Rule 14. The teachers shall so arrange the daily exercises in their classes that every pupil shall have, forenoon and afternoon, some kind of physical exercise. Rule 15. Good morals being of the first importance, and essential to the highest progress in useful knowledge, principles of truth, virtue and right living must be inculcated; but no teacher shall promulgate partisan or sectarian views in school.
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