(No. That is not me in the picture. Quit your snickering.)So, I am buried in my schoolwork again. In my Nevada Law for School Teachers textbook, there is the following list of "Rules for Teachers" from 1872. Lets all be thankful we weren't school teachers then.
1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and scuttle (?) of coal for the day's session.
3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
(Here's where it gets good.)
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who MARRY or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls or gets shaved in a barber shop (HUH?) will have good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the board of education approves.
2 comments:
Haha! I LOVE #7 - too bad there's not rules these days about not becoming burdens on society. Obviously, people don't follow that rule anymore.
Interesting things you are learning in school over there.....
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So funny! Can you imagine? It's amazing that anyone was a teacher with those rules!
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