Show british schoolmasters are protesting doing service under head mistresses distresses Mi stresses the british national association of schoolmasters without cla claiming inting any mental superiority for male teachers ten teachers chers recently issued two statements to all local school boards of england angland and wales protesting against 1 the service of schoolmasters under head mi stresses and 2 the inspection ol of physical training of boys by women it elaborated its theses as follows in regard to the first statement it as seated that serving under a head mistress Is distasteful to the lie majority ol of schoolmasters the distaste Is based on an entirely healthy instinct and Is strongly approved by the great majority of men and nonien school life demands intimate and personal contacts between the head and the assistants si often on very intimate watters matters the relationship cannot be formal or the work of the school will be severely handicapped on tile the question ot of the supervision by women of the physical training ol of b ys the association claims to express a normal view of both sexes when it states that it is neither desirable nor natural that a woman should be placed in charge of the physical train ing of a boy such a position entails dealing with intimate matters concerning tile pupil it says it is not usually accepted as fit or proper for women to undertake duties ditties involving such dealings with boys except in the cases ol of nurses or the mothers of the boys concerned lids lads strongly resent tile interference ter of women except their mothers in such matters |