_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 .
--------------------- ----------------- _Superintendent_. _Teacher_.
The city of Los Angeles, California, uses a plan of marking home work on the report card and giving no other incentive. Notice that a certain number of minutes daily for ten weeks is the unit, and that the number of minutes varies according to the age of the child. Observe the emphasis on care of yards and streets, also on care of little brothers and sisters.
_Report of Committee on Home Credits, Los Angeles Schools_
The Committee on Home Credits makes these recommendations:--
1. That the "Home Credits" be not used as a substitute for other work, and also that they be not applied to increase the grade of other subjects except as any work well done necessarily improves all work of the child.
2. That the words "Home Credit" be written on the new cards just published, and that in the future these words be printed as a regular part of the card, with space for inserting the number of credits.
3. That in the several grades the following constitute one credit:--
(_a_) First and second grades, 10 minutes of daily work for 10 weeks.
(_b_) Third and fourth grades, 15 minutes of daily work for 10 weeks.
(_c_) Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, 20 minutes of daily work for 10 weeks, and that multiples of such work in 10, 15, 20 minutes be allowed so that a child may earn several credits each ten weeks.
4. That the following subjects be selected for the initial trial of the plan:--
1. Taking care of the baby. 2. Bathing baby. 3. Washing or wiping dishes. 4. Washing or ironing clothes. 5. Washing windows. 6. Scrubbing floor. 7. Sweeping floor. 8. Setting table. 9. Dusting and putting room in order. 10. Sweeping or cleaning yard. 11. Sweeping sidewalk. 12. Cleaning street in front of home. 13. Care of garbage can. 14. Getting meals. 15. Making beds. 16. Mending clothes. 17. Making new or making over old clothes for family. 18. Working in shop or store. 19. Working in and caring for garden. 20. Running errands, going to market, store, etc. 21. Driving delivery wagon. 22. Selling papers. 23. Taking little brothers and sisters to school, clean and on time. 24. Clean hands, faces, clothes. 25. Clean heads. 26. Raising poultry or rabbits. 27. Any other outside work peculiar to particular district if approved by Supervising Superintendent.