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Civic Practice {Self ■Government). 

 Class Committees. 



1. General Committee. — Look after general welfare of school ; appoint Sub- 



Committees, monitors for corridors, cloak-rooms, &c. 



2. Subcommittees. — (a) Sports Committee. 



(6) Debating Committee. — To arrange Debates. Typical subjects — Party 

 Government — Advantages and Disadvantages ; Use and abuse of letter- 

 writing to papers ; Is the working-man better off to-d;iy than fifty 

 years ago? Up to what age should children attend school? &c. 



(c) Sanitaiy Committee. — Repo-rt choked gullies, &c., during school 

 hours, &c. 



3. Scholars' Committee (each class). ^Three girls and four boys elected by 



class. Each responsible for class-room generally. Laziness, bad work, 

 &c., reported to Committee, who report their decision to Class Teacher. 

 Committee also appoint Class-room Monitors. 



E.—Roath Park Boys' School, Cardiff. 

 Citizenship. 

 The scheme for History [St. V.-VII.] is framed with the definite object of 

 rousing interest in — 



{a) The growth of liberty. 



(6) England's position among the nations. 



(c) Value of sea- power. 



(d) Growth of the Empire. 



(e) Citizenship. 

 Part (e) includes : 



(i) The Rights of a Citizen. 

 (ii) The Duties of a Citizen, 

 (iii) How an Act of Parliament is made, 

 (i) Rights of a Citizen. 



1. The right to vote. Representative Government. 



2. The right to protection. 



3. The right to justice. The Courts of Justice and the administration 



of justice, 

 (ii) Duties of a Citizen. 



1. Municipal government. How a city like Cardiff governs itself. 



2. Obedience to laws. 



3. Service to the community. The best service to the community is 



to be honest and industrious in the sphere in which we are 

 placed. 



4. The protection of public property. 



5. Ignorance a bar to progress and good citizenship. Every person 



should take an intelligent interest in the affairs of city and 

 State. 



Ireland. 

 Y.— First Berry Boys' School. 



1. Society — what ' society ' implies. 



(a) Necessity of ' Social System ' of living. 



(b) Duties arising from ' Social System ' of living. 

 These classified as A, B C, &c., as follows : 



2. A. Liberty. 



B. The Consequent Renunciation. 



C. Duties must be discharged, rather than rights sought for. 



D. Obedience to Law; loyalty to King and Constitution, issuing in. 



E. Development of a ' Spirit of Law.' 



F. Personal duty in regard to thought, speech, act. 



G. Limits to exercise of these. 



H. Public duty of each in regard to these. 



I. Spirit of carefulness, neatness, and cleanliness in person and in environ- 

 ment. 

 J. Personal and Public; hence strive to abolish ugliness. 

 K. Reaction on character — public and private — if we observe these rules, &c. 

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