8 or 9 students
at $1.00 per head
10 or 11 students
at .90 per head
12, 13, 14 students
at .80 per head
15 and more at .75
per head
June 23, 1923 -
The total cost of
purchasing and installing blackboards for the new high school, $560.
Tablet arm chairs,
$5.50 each
February 5, 1923
- The Clerk salary was set at $250 for the year.
January 7, 1924
- School board votes to allow teachers to have one week vacation.
February 4, 1924
- Board decides to buy shields for lights in auditorium. Board president
mandated to notify teachers that "if any more are broken, the one breaking
same is to pay for it."
April 7, 1924 -
Board takes out $5,000 insurance policy on new high school building and
$5,000 on its contents.
May 5, 1924 - Board
votes to "pay teachers as soon as possible after close of high school."
July 7, 1924 - Principal
A.G. Wood hired for high school. His salary was set at $2,100.
He also had to teach classes and be advisor for extra-curricular activities.
July 6, 1925 - Ira
Coriell wins bid to supply school with coal at $6.00 per ton.
February 1, 1926
- Board mandates that "teachers are to be at their desk 1/2 hour before
school and to remain there 1/2 hour after school."
October 18, 1926
- Board agrees to order one Kolograph machine for the high school.
January 24, 1927
- Clerk instructed to order from Rand McNally and Co., 10 copies of Mace
and Tamer's "The Story of Old Europe and Young America."
May 2, 1927 - "Resolved
by the Board of Education of the Minford Rural School District, Scioto
County, Ohio, that we employ no married women to teach in the grade schools
of said district, and be it further resolved that should any woman teacher
get married during the term of her employment, her contract as teacher
automatically expires and becomes null and void."
October 3, 1927
- "Janitors of the one-room grade buildings be paid $3.00 per month for
their services."
February 26, 1928
- Teacher Alma Willis got married, but board decided to "permit her to
finish teaching the present term of school."
February 6, 1928
- Total monthly expenditure for teacher's salaries - $2,002.50
March 5, 1928 -
The Clerk is instructed to notify teachers that "they must be at their
respective schools at least 1/2 hour before the beginning of school and
to remain after the regular hour of dismissal until the pupils have left
the school premises."
June 4, 1928 - Resolution
passed on May 2, 1927 forbidding the employment of married women in the
elementary schools "is hereby repealed."
August 23, 1928
- Mr. Walter Cook hired as high school teacher and coach for the ensuing
year at a salary of $1,800.
August 27, 1928
- Children who will be 6 years old before January 1 of any year may enter
at the beginning of that school year. Those who will not be 6 years
until on or after January 1 of any year, shall not enter until the beginning
of the next school year.
November 8, 1946 - Juniors sold chances
for nylons & candy at McDermott basketball game.
March 1, 1956 - Board agrees to erect a
sign at Bonser School, "No loafing by order of Board of Education."
July 20, 1959 - Board accepts offer by
A.P. Hunt to buy 26.297 acres of land along Bond Road and Route 335.
Purchase price $26,297.
November 10, 1960 - Board purchases a 66
passenger school bus, B-700 Ford, from Vallery Ford for $6,134.
October 24, 1962
- An emergency board meeting was called "because of the Cuban conflict
and measures that must be taken to evacuate children from the schools or
take care of them at the school in case of an emergency arose."
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