Show t r h I b 1 y r t e h I. I r Uinta t n l ili i B By Dr De Wayne Reid Held Superintendent Q A nostalgic I look ok at education Teachers today have many problems beseeching their education endeavors However In n years Sears past a different set of problems faced them Today some teachers smoke drink s serve in Congress crusade for a variety of Just causes etc In Inh short h rt the 1976 1976 teacher is is' no different from the rest of us a fact that may not be to the liking of all school boards but is accepted c by them nonetheless In In October 1894 some boards held field ld that the teacher holds a relation l tion to society which precludes p active partisanship that t at his position is a public one that renders political activity p pernicious pernicious that the influences which he must necessarily hold holdover holdover over over V r t the pupil are apt to shape the tatters letters opinion on political and nd economic questions that p by y becoming an active politician he becomes a teacher Of r politics and a feeder forer for pertain er aln political parties To enter the political ar arena arena na in any active form means to cast the sc schoolmasters schoolmaster's influence as a schoolmaster into partisan b balance lance to the detriment of this noble profession At the turn of the century there there was a keen desire to keep married women out of Schoolrooms This This was evidently prompted by the Yi t rian contention th that t a P. P pregnant ant woman should never be seen in society Even the yard word pregnant was not regarded as entirely decent In Int t 01 one magazine replied a aw w womans woman's mans man's marriage implies motherhood Motherhood at times times necessitates seclusion An earlier article reflected a married woman having an able bodied husband to provide fortier for her tier should strive to become w ivf what at t nature intended her to be i a jf Companion to her husband a ai ai i mother i t ther er of her children and the queen een of her home ether ther social strictures placed p pp teachers included such matters as Wll minimums mums for skirt lengths and prohibitions against riding cycles bicycles to school Yet even at ath century's pe-century's h e century's turn journalists pleaded pt the plight of the poorly p pd d teachers especially women women teachers Witness this J 89 r 7 article There are in the city of New York teachers principals of schools of these ese only are men The rest nearly women are arebe aretha th tha be n most cst poorly paid employees of pf Pf t city ity government This in spite of the fact that they are Cheated women upon whom is imposed posed the sacred trust of Pr properly instructing the youth youtha r a a gr great at city After graduation tion she then enters upon pop a year of apprenticeship at ary of and then is appointed a regular teacher at ata ata a a salary B of At the end of 14 years of meritorious service Pt the pie woman teacher receives just 30 more than the thet street t sweepers and 30 less than than the the stablemen and l less th than n the cleaners in inthe inthe the County Jail other p her news flashes from the past are lire illuminating to say the east Kansas City Board has decided that its teachers must work one month for nothing owing to a shortage in funds Cincinnati President Herlinger has announced that he is opposed to woman principals prin prin- Hills Minn Scholars in a school four miles northeast of here overpowered the teacher and pitched him out the win win- dow Sev Several ral arrests have been made Kentucky If any teacher refuses to teach the Bible he shall be liable to a reduction of 10 percent of his salary Chicago Teachers are required to explain to the superintendent why they do not pay their bills promptly Holyoke Mass The school board has issued an order that all single male teachers in the schools must forthwith marry or lose their positions Holyoke Mass Because the instructor in history in the high school told the scholars that Christ was one of ten brothers and sisters the board of education requested the instructors instructor's instructors instructor's instructors instructor's in in- resignation and accepted the same without a dissenting vote When one recalls the Good Old Days I really wonder where they have been hidden School and r rby Home by Dr Daryl J J. J McCarty Executive Secretary Utah E Education uc tian Association tan |