Show scho school ol 01 board abandons married woman policy tents of each individual case to supplant arbitrary rule against married women As teachers an arbitrary rule against marled women as teachers in the iron dounty school district adhered to ay iy y the board ot of education with few exceptions for or a number of years vas as definitely finitely dc abandoned at a meet ng ot of the board the first ot of the month hereafter the tact fact that a women is a married will not be a bar to her employment in the schools of 0 the district rather her application will be decad decided ed on its merits without regard to her marital status the rule against married women has always invoked criticism and and aven members of 0 the board deen entirely converted to it it has been argued against the rule that first consideration in the employment of at a teacher should be her ability to put over the job that th the teachers were for the schools rather than the schools tor for the teachers the recent marriage of one ot of the districts outstanding teachers miss wavie williams who la Is no now in the cedar schools brought the ques bios before the board to be consistent with lie he past policy of the district miss aliss williams services should have been dispensed with when her marriage to mr jacobsen about ho iday time became known knonk but the superintendent and the board members felt that it would be poor policy and detrimental to her students to replace her at this time the new policy resulted front from a discussion ot of her case incidentally W it was planned by mr air and mrs airs jacobsen that their marriage should be a secret until the end of the school year because ot of this rule and they took the precaution to go to nevada tor for their license it Is understood dut but s some orn e enterprising news reporter got hold ot of the story and it came out in novada nevada and then in salt lake papers so they were not so successful as were miss aliss barbara green and her young man whose marriage at hollday holiday time two years ago remained a dark secret to continue the play the latter couple even issued announcements noun cements of their marriage some time in may or early june after her school work here was fin finished shed and it is probably news to most of our readers even now that they were actually married at holiday time she continued to put over a mighty good job in the school room and he continued his studies until the end of the school year patrons and probably school officials being none the wiser FT |