SUPERINTENDENT'S CHAT
Richard J.
McClements, Shonto Preparatory School
Recently, I came
across a publication entitled, "Rules for Teachers - 1872." I thought you might enjoy seeing these
guidelines:
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 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 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.
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