The city of Methuen, Massachusetts, is seeking a $3,000 grant to preserve an 1893 attendance register. Robert Frost kept the register while teaching at Methuen’s Second Grammar School.
Three details I notice:
The students’ ages appear to be marked in years and months — 12-3, 13-11. Common practice?
Absences appear to be marked by the half-day.
“T” must stand for good old “tardy.”
Methuen seeking $3,000 to preserve Robert Frost document (Boston Globe)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Robert Frost, taking attendance
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Standardized testing and norms are based on age in years and months. With children, a month can make a big difference, as I'm sure you have experienced. Reading Ilg and Ames helped me to keep my sanity, for instance, when I realized that _Your Four Year-Old_ was behaving normally (if distressingly.)
Yes, I remember those sorts of questions when my children were in elementary school.
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