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LONG HAIR IN GIRLS' NATIONAL
SCHOOLS.

beg the attention of yourself or any of your correspooders to a point in teef exceedingly trifling, but productive of very

I bariz bors, and I believe, throughout the country generally, to ebilden lat: bar schocks with long hair. This, in very many ISLINS PENCas vil at submit to, and the consequence is, that very BUTTON Rrsons are placed in a state of virtual excommunication. Walt tendre, to know is, why is short hair so insisted upon? is there it streger argment than that of cleanliness? If it be said that children with kaş bir will not keep their heads clean, I answer, ta my tan bn, cò if they will not submit to this, then turn them out of school as inveterately dirty. Few parents, I imagine, who contend for the length of their children's hair, will submit to the disgrace of this And, ter all, does not this insisting upon short hair seem contrary to the very letter of holy scripture? Is it not, in fact, making the point a term of communica?

The point is as I said, a very triding one; but it is one which emharisses me much. I am unwilling to go counter to what the experience of almost every school in the kingdom has adopted as a rule, Ì beleve; and, on the other hand, I am most unwilling to forego the exercise of that induence over the young of my flock, which is so obviously Ex day,

J. E. T.

HINTS TO THE COMMITTEES AND VISITORS OF INFANT

SCHOOLS.

For the following useful information, we are indebted to a valuable little work, lately published under the direction of the Committee of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, under the title of "Hints on the Establishment of Schools for Early Education, and on their Superintendence by Committees, Patrons, and Visitors"]

BUSINESS OF COMMITTEES.

It often happens that school committees cease to meet regularly, because it is alleged there is nothing for them to do, as the school itself is going on well.

This is a great omission. The meeting of a committee, even if no special business is transacted, has a good effect on the teacher, on the parents, and on the children. It proves that an interest is taken in the work; it shows also that if anything is done wrong there is a regular court of appeal, and this of itself is of great importance. When committees have ceased to meet, it has always been found that a mainspring has given way, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the school has rapidly deteriorated. There is, too, always some business for a committee; for example:

1. They should have before them the receipts and disbursements since the last meeting, whether great or small, as shown by the treasurer's book.

2. A statement of any subscribers who have declined or omitted to pay their usual subscription.

This statement leads to explanations, and by a call on the party from some member of the committee a subscription is often regained. On this occasion, also, inquiry may be made as to any individuals newly come to reside in the town or neighbourhood, and, if needful, a deputation should be appointed to

wait on them.

3. Whether the teachers receive the pence on their own account or on account of the committee, a regular monthly account should be laid on the table of the committee, showing the sums received and the amount in arrear. This account should be invariably entered in a separate page of the minute-book in columns, headed by the month, as follows:

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Thus affording a ready means of comparison between the same month of each year, and enabling the committee to ascertain if the school be advancing, stationary, or falling off.

It is a good rule to allot the first twenty minutes or half-hour to financial concerns alone, and when a collector is employed he should attend.

4. The attendance of children being thus brought forward, it should always form a subject of minute inquiry. The names of the children absent during each week, and the reason given by the parents for such absence when called on by the teachers on the Saturday, should be produced. The teachers should come before the committee, and the list be gone regularly through.

Members of the committee will frequently by this means get valuable information relating to the state of the poor, as well as of their disposition, as of their bodily wants, and by a word in season, after the committee is over, may often rescue the children from the street and restore them to the school.

5. When children are, by whatever means, admitted free, or paid for by charitable persons, their names and attendance should be specially reported and their circumstances inquired into, it being very undesirable that free tickets or free admissions should be continued when distress has ceased.

6. When the school is large and the number of absentees or free children considerable, at least once a quarter the list of names should be divided amongst the different members, and every individual undertake to call on a limited number, reporting to the next committee the circumstances of each case.

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The following hints on specific minor duties may not be without their use. 1. It is very desirable that the appointed visitor should attend on Monday morning sufficiently early to assist the teachers in collecting the weekly pence, and also to superintend the admission of children; by the latter an acquaintance is often made with the parents, and an intercourse commenced, which may afterwards be of much importance to the well-being of the children.

2. When children are brought to be admitted free, at the recommendation of subscribers, visitors should, after school hours, ascertain themselves, or take care that the teacher ascertains, that they are cases of real charity.

3. Every school ought to have plainly written on a slate or black board, the number of children in attendance, morning and afternoon, as well as the number of names on the books, thus:

The attention of the visitor should be constantly directed to this statement, and an inquiry be made, when the school is over, for the absentees and the causes of absence.

4. Every Saturday it is the duty of the teacher to visit the parents of the children absent during the week (unless prevented), and to make out a list of the names of such children and of the reasons given for their absence. This list should be carefully gone over with the teacher, and inquiry made into the circumstances of each case.

5. A similar inquiry should be made for children late, either on the particular day of visiting, or habitually, and a visitor will often do much good by calling on the parents, when the efforts of the teacher have failed to produce punctuality, bearing in mind that it is by patience and christian kindness that the poor are be won to do even that which is obviously for their children's benefit,

6. Every school-room should in like manner have a table hung up, showing what ought to be the employment of every half-hour in the day; and although critical accuracy may not be necessary, the visitor should, after school hours, ask for an explanation when any material variation has taken place.

7. Visitors should take notice when the school-room requires ventilation, and also to remark when it is not swept clean in the morning, and between the school hours, the play-ground being kept free from litter, bits of paper, or any thing of that kind; also if on the Monday the school-room does not appear to have been well washed on the previous Saturday, and the play-ground swept; noticing also when the windows want cleaning or the walls sweeping down; for whoever may be employed to do these things, the teacher should be responsible that they are properly done.

8. It is also desirable to notice when the hats, cloaks, &c., of the children, are not neatly arranged in the place appointed for them, and at the close of the school given out in an orderly manner, none being left behind by the children. 9. Visitors should inspect the cupboards where the lessons are kept, and remark if they are left dirty or untidy, or the lessons, books, &c., not neatly put away; if any appear out of repair it should be pointed out, and the smallest fracture stopped by a little paste or glue. Lessons thus dealt with last much longer than when they are neglected; where the number of lessons is considerable, the visitor for the last week in the month should go over them regularly, and enter a memorandum of their state in a book, which should always be kept for the remarks of the official visitor.

10. If the teacher be dressed too fine, or be untidy, or irregular in hours, it should be kindly pointed out after school hours. Christian faithfulness in noticing the beginning of evils in this respect, before they become so serious as to be

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