RULES FOR TEACHERS 1872
* Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
* Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session.
* Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual tastes of the pupil.
* Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
* After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
* Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
* Every teacher should lay aside from 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.
* Any teacher who smokes, used liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls or gets shaved in a barbershop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.
* 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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RULES FOR 1915 SCHOOLTEACHERS
Truly, the life style of a schoolteacher has changed radically in the last 50 or 60 years. For example, a 1915 teachers' magazine listed the following rules of conduct for teachers of that day.
* You will not marry during the term of your contract.
* You are not to keep company with men.
* You must be home between the hours of 8 pm and 6 am unless attending a school function.
* You may not loiter downtown in any of the ice cream stores.
* You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have the permission of the chairman of the board.
* You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man unless he is your father or brother.
* You may not smoke cigarettes.
* You may under no circumstances dye your hair.
* You may not smoke cigarettes.
* You may not dress in bright colors.
* You must wear at least two petticoats.
* Your dresses must not be any shorter than two inches above your ankle.
* To keep the schoolroom neat and clean, you must: scrub the floor at least once a week with hot, soapy water; clean the blackboards at least once a day; and start the fire at 7 am so the room will be warm by 8 am.
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