Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-13

toWhru tne close OF tne COLLECTION VIII nave 10
The lay ixss penalty on all taxes not paid
b. COOPER, Treasurer.
ST. CLAIRsvILLE, o., May %, 1867.
THE PAY OF TEAcHERs-MALEs vs.
FEMALEs.--At the last teachers exami-
nation in this County, on Saturday, the
Board of Examiners propounded the fol-
lowing question to applicants, to which
they required written answers:
"What reasons can employers have for
paying higher wages to male than to fe-
male teachers?"
The answers were various, and are
quite suggestive. We give them below,
numbering them in their order. The fe-
male teachers "come up to time" after
this style: .
/. "None that know of except GUS
TOM"
2. "I do not know what reasons they
can have unless they think that men are
intellectually greater than women and
therefore more capable of teaching. Or
they may value their services on account
of greater physical strength"
3. 1.-THE reason male teachers receive
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known to me, unless partiality."
T. "That is question frequently ask
ed: do not know why it is; it is always
customary, 1 believe; and they probably
think they can teach and govern, better
than q female, and therefore deserve
higher wages. But believe 1 cannot
give an exact reason"
5. "I suppose employers give male
higher wages is because they think that
they are more capable governing schools. F."
8: "Numerous excuses which 1 have
not patience to enumerate, as 1 do not
consider them valid reasons. It is my
opinion that merit alone should govern
wages.
2. because they are partial to their
own SEX"
8. "I do not know what reason they
can have unless they think they are
more deserving than females.
8. II do not know unless they think
that the males have to bear the burden
of the nation"
10. ~ cannot assign any reason Ex-
cept that Employers do not wish to
make us equal with the males, our teach
er received S39, last winter and his school
only averaged l6 pupils per day and L
have, since 1 commenced, had thirty
five and forty pupils Every day and 1
cannot understand how he could perform
more duty than do and only receive
SOS, per month
II. "That has always been a mystery
to me. I have great desire to be ell
lightened with regard to that subject. "
The noble males-who have the "bur-
den of the nation" on their shoulders
furnish the following reasons. Some of
them are brilliant, and render the fame
of their authors secure.
/. "Male tsachers may have a family
TO support, and generally spend more to
educate themselves.
2. "The reason that most directors
give, is that the scholars make better
progress with male than they do with
female.
8. "What reasons can employers have
for pay higher wages to male than to fe-
male teachers? 1t is generally believed
that a female cannot govern (or does not
or CONTROL School as well as male
teachers"
4. If female is as we'll qualified and
can render the same amount of service
that male can she should have as much
for it"
5. "both sex should get all the COM
pensation they can for it is very thank
less profession
s. They are suppose to be more COM
petent to govern a school, +"
z. because Male persons have more
sternness, and can have more influence
over the majority of School than Fe-
males and as general thing Males are
stronger minded than Females
8. 81 suppose that thay ar more COM
petent to,Govern large Schools "
the reasons why employers will give
higher wages to males than females only
that there are some females that can
not govern q school and as u general
thing females are not as good scholars as
males"
10. "Why, My, reason is Simply this,
that ladies cannot, preserve AS, good
order, as, Gentlemen, they are, to- timid,
fraid A, fraid OF, displeasing, parents.
and, they are, not Calculated, for, that
purpose, Il, Mink)"
"A, fraid" is pretty good, but we think
afeerd is better.
We print the answers just as they were
rendered, and we think our readers will
agree with us that the ladies have the
advantage, especially in the use of the
Kings English.
This matter is deserving of reflection
at the hands of school boards. There
is no sense in discriminating against an
educated, refined, and accomplished fe-
male teacher, and in favor of an ignorant
blockhead, solely because he is man.
And yet this is exactly what is done by
MANY Of our school boards.
FRUIT PROSPECTS. = Although the
cherry bloom was very prolific, the yield
is likely to be very light. The buds
were evidently injured with the late
frosts, and the fruit, nearly half grown,
is falling off the trees. The early va
rieties are rotting on account of the ex-
cessiye wet weather, and, on the whole,
there will be light yield. t'-
q The rot is also injuring the early va
rieties of plums.
Peaches are looking very well, and an
abundant yield may be expected, unless
some evil not now evident shall befall
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