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PUBLIC COLLEGES.
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gymnastics are replaced by running games conducted under the teacher’s
supervision and guidance, preferably in the open air. Military drill, replacing
gymnastics, for the boys in classes VI and VII, extend over five weeks at most
at the beginning of the Fall term, for altogether 60 hours; during this period
the rector may arrange with the teachers for a diminution in the number of
school hours for those classes to the extent of from 7 to 12 hours a week.
The Public College in Skara.
In later years, obligatory vacation tasks have been assigned to the students
during summer vacations. The subject and extent of these tasks, which are the same
for all pupils in the same class, are determined upon by the rector towards the
close of the Spring term, in accordance with the suggestions of the various
teachers of the subjects concerned, in the main according to a settled scheme (1895).
New pupils are only entered at the beginning of a term, the great majority
in the Fall, i. e. at the beginning of the school year. All who apply for entrance
must be at least nine years of age; and they must all pass a special
examination, unless they only change schools, and present satisfactory certificates. The
requirements for entrance into the first (i. e. lowest) class have been established
by law, and were modified to some extent (1894) in order to make it easier
to pass from the common schools to the public colleges.
At the close of every Spring term a general promotion to higher classes takes
place throughout the school. All students considered worthy of it are moved up
without special examination to the next class. The others may, if they wish,
present themselves for examination at the beginning of the Fall term, being then
moved up if that examination results satisfactorily; this category usually embraces
some 20 % of those who are promoted. A boy who has spent two years in a
class without promotion is, as a rule, excluded from the school.
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