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Course was spelled out for pupils 100 years ago / Bowen, Jerry [735] [WAYITWAS-2007-735]
In my last column we took a sneak preview of what it was like for school students back in 1909. I thought you might find it quite interesting how much of an education you had to have just to enter high school. In 1911, the Solano County Schools Board of Education issued a book of "Rules for Promotion and Graduation" and a "List of Supplementary Reading Books."

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1906 Course of Study Solano County Schools

1906

Course of Study, Rules for promotion and graduation for the Elementary Schools of Solano County, California. Introduction written by Dan H. White, County Superintendent of Schools. Adopted by the Board of Education on June, 30, 1906. [...]

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1911 Course of Study Solano County Schools

1911

Course of Study, Rules for promotion and graduation. Also list of supplementary reading books as revised for Solano County Schools. Including detailed working directions for the following disciplines: Mathematics, Reading and Literature, Language, Grammar and Composition, Geography, Spelling, Word-Building, History and Civics, Penmanship, Physiology and Hygiene, Bookkeeping, Drawing, Music and Nature Study and Agriculture..

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Teachers and pupils had some challenges / Bowen, Jerry [560] [WAYITWAS-2005-560]
When our family moved from North Dakota to California in 1950, I was in the eighth grade. It was quite a shock going from a school system with good discipline and challenging education to the loose uncontrolled discord of the school system I attended in the South Bay Area.

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Lessons, then and now / Bowen, Jerry [764] [WAYITWAS-2007-764]
In my last column, we took a continuing brief look at some of the 1911 requirements as written in the Course of Study Rules for Promotion and Graduation from Solano County Schools to graduate, in the eighth grade, from grammar school.

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School's story is wreathed in summary of pupils / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [671] [WAYITWAS-2006-671]
This is Part 1 of a two-part article. Part 2 will run Sunday, Oct. 22. - Editor In the early years of Solano County history, Benicia was at the forefront in developing educational institutions for the children of the first pioneer families.

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Could schools of the past teach us something? / Bowen, Jerry [766] [WAYITWAS-2007-766]
This is the last in a series on the early rules of grammar school education. The subjects discussed were penmanship, bookkeeping and current events, as taken from the 1911 Solano County Course of Study. I'm not so sure that they are still pursued in depth in many of the schools of today to any degree.

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Francisco Solano becomes a mission alcalde / Bowen, Jerry [677] [WAYITWAS-2006-677]
In my last column I introduced you to "Sino" and now I find that I spelled his name wrong. According to a transcript of his baptismal certificate at the Huntington Library his name was spelled "Sina."

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A Few Quirks of Interest About Vacaville / Rico, John [925] [RICO-1979-925]
WE READ WHAT WE WANT TO READ - All of us are oriented in our thinking, and find I enjoyable reading in those topics which fit smugly into our pattern. It was Will Rogers who said: "All I know is what I read in the papers."

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