1872 RULES FOR TEACHERS

[prolab69]

1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.

2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session.

3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.

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 day 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 hall or gets shaved in a barber shop will give 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.


I just though this was kinda funny. found it here-> http://nytompki.org/school/teac.htm
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[Damon64]

Man, I wouldn't have lasted a day!

[ivan salis]

teaching was thought of as a way for a poor homely but semi intelligent woman without "a man" to earn her upkeep , it was also for frail bookish men who were ill suited to "manly work" thus unlike to marry easily as well. --to keep a job on the public dole as a public school teacher one had to be "spotless" and above reproach --no smoking , no drinking , no "wild " socail life , being a steady church goer was "required" if one wanted to "seriously" think of being be hired-- basically you were boringly stiff old biddy or lame dude.

[TypicalClinger]

Shaved in a barbershop? How crude!

[ohioaxeman]

No. 7 = Social Security... or Anti-Social Security!