Powers and Duties of the Head Teachers.

1. Every head teacher or sole teacher shall keep a roll, in which parents may enter the names and ages of their children; and shall be bound to receive such names in school, between school times, or in any other hour between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on week days, at his private residence. The head teacher may demand proof of age from the parent, as provided by the Statute.

2. The head teacher shall fix the school hours, with reservation of the right of the board of advice to define the period of recess. He shall draw up the time-tables for the school, and see that a time-table for each class is posted in every room. If the morning hours exceed two, he may allow children to leave after the second muster-roll has been taken.

3. He may require the attendance of the assistant teachers a quarter of an hour before school-time, and may keep them in for an hour after afternoon school, to maintain order among children who are kept in. But he must observe rotation in imposing this duty, except that in schools of Class A the first assistant shall be exempted.

4. The head teacher shall keep a book in which the time when the teachers come and leave shall be entered by themselves. Members of the board of advice may enter the room where this book is kept to see that the entries are made regularly.

5. The head teacher has entire charge of the school-buildings during school-time and in midday recess, but the board of advice has charge of them out of school hours, and on Saturdays and Sundays. If the board, having used them, neglect to clean them and put them in order before school begins again, the head master shall report their conduct to the department.

6. The head teacher shall cause a bell to be rung before each roll-call, and members of the board of advice may attend at such times to check the rolls.

7. The head teacher may require pupil-teachers, or children over 9, and living within half a mile of the house, to deliver the summons to show cause on the parents of truant children.

8. The head teacher shall send in the school rolls for every month on the first Monday of the succeeding month to the board of advice for his district, addressing them to the correspondent if no other person is named by the board. He shall also furnish separate truant lists, showing the names of the children who have fallen short of the legal number of attendances. He shall also furnish returns to the department according to forms supplied for the purpose.

9. The head teacher in schools of Classes A and B is not bound to take any class. His work is to organize; and it must be left to page 80 his discretion, which will be severely tested by the result system, whether he can do more by teaching himself or by supervising the teaching of his assistants. But he shall be bound to give instruction himself for an hour a day at least to the pupil-teachers.

10. It shall be one duty of the head teacher to send in on the 20th of the month a statement of the sums due to the assistant teachers and to himself, calculating to the end of the month; and he shall be authorized to keep back any sums that have not been earned during the remainder of the month. On the second of every month he shall forward receipts for all payments to the department.

11. The head teacher is alone competent to inflict corporal chastisement, but he may delegate this duty, with permission of the department, to a first or second assistant in all cases, except those that occur in the assistant teacher's own class. In no case shall more than 12 strokes be inflicted, nor shall any offences except bad language, indecent conduct, disobedience or flagrant disorder, be punished corporally; and a record of all punishments shall be kept and forwarded to the department. The head teacher shall not allow the use of any pointers, with which a blow can be given.

12. A head teacher shall have the right to demand that any assistant whose percentage for practical work has fallen below 2 two years running, or has not made the sum of 10 in five years, shall be removed from his school.