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Manuals
Conduct of Christian Schools:
SECOND PART - CHAPTER 3
MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING ORDER IN SCHOOLS
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CHAPTER 3
Records or Registers 2
One thing that can contribute much to the maintenance of order in the schools is that there be well-kept Registers. There should be three kinds of Registers: (1) the Register of Promotion in Lessons; (2) the Register of Levels of Lessons; and (3) a Pocket Register.3 The first of these will be for the use of the Inspector of Schools. The last two will be used by the teachers.
ARTICLE I
Registers of Promotions in Lessons
The Inspectors of Schools will each have a Record or Register upon which the names of the students will be inscribed according to the lessons and levels in which they are. The name of each student will be entered upon this register according to the level of a lesson in which the student is. There will be a separate register for each school associated with the same House. Each register will begin with the first level of the lowest lesson and will continue in this manner to the last level of the highest lesson.4
The student Registers of Promotion in Lessons, of writing both round hand writing and Italian script, and of arithmetic will be written one after another in the same book.
Each leaf of this register will be divided into five columns. Each column will be separated by lines from top to bottom. The middle column should be wider than the four others.
In the middle column will be written the names and surnames of the students of the same level in a lesson, one after another in the order in which they have been admitted to the school or promoted to this lesson, as the case may be. In the first column and beside each name, the day of the month on which each of the students was put into this level of the lesson will be written. In the second column, the month will be written. In the third column, the name and the surname will be written. In the fourth column, the day of the month that each student of this level was transferred to another level will be written. In the fifth column, the month in which the student was transferred will be written.
ARTICLE II
Register of Levels in Lessons
Each teacher will have a register in the form of a book containing 24 leaves, two for each month upon which will be inscribed the names of the students of the class, according to the level of each lesson in which they are. The names of all the students of the same level of a lesson will be written one after another under the name of the level of the lesson in which they are.
On each leaf of this register, there will be three columns each, marked from top to bottom. In the first column, which will be the narrowest, the month and day of the month on which each of these students have been put into this level of the lesson will be written beside each name. In the middle column, the names and surnames of the students of the same level of a lesson will be written one after another and in the order in which they have been admitted to the school or placed in the level of the lesson in which they are. All of the names will be separated from one another by lines drawn from one side of the sheet to the other. In the third column, there will be four squares beside each name. Each of the squares will be marked by little dots in the following manner: in the first square, how many times a student has come late; in the second square, how many times a student has been absent with permission; in the third square, how many times a student has been absent without permission; and, in the fourth square, how many times a student has failed to know the lesson in the Diocesan Catechism. At the top of the first column of squares, "Late" will be written. At the top of the second column of squares, "Abs. with perm." will be written. At the top of the third column of squares, "Abs. without perm." will be written. At the top of the fourth column of squares, "Ignor. of Cat." will be written.
Toward the end of school, the teachers will mark on these register those who have come late or been absent and those who have not known their Diocesan Catechism when called to recite it.
2 The preface to Chapter III on XXX Registers in the 1720 manuscript lists three kinds of Registers, while the 1706 manuscript lists six. The preface of 1706 can be found as EXTRACT FOUR on page XXX in Appendix B. The four Registers that can only be found in the 1706 manuscript can also be found in Appendix B. The Admission Register and Model Register of Admission can be found as EXTRACT FIVE on page XXX. The Register of the Good and Bad Qualities of Students and the Model Register of Behavior can be found as EXTRACT SIX on page XXX. The Register of the Bench Leader and the Model Register of Daily Attendance can be found as EXTRACT SEVEN on page XXX. The Register of Home Visitations and the Model Register of Home Visitations can be found as EXTRACT EIGHT on page XXX.
3 No further mention is made of this Pocket Register.
4 An explanation of the terms used here can be found on page of the Introduction to this volume.
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