The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-26
MARRIED TEACHERS.
Question That Has Excited Interest
and Discussion in Cincinnati.

A Question That Has Excited Interest
and Discussion in Cincinnati.
The question concerning the advisability
of married woman being employed as teach
ers in the public schools has excited wide
spread interest and discussion in Cincinnati,
not only among members of the Board OF
Education, Teachers patrons and pupils OF
the schools, but every married man and
married woman is engaged as partisan in
the contest to decide the supremacy of the
single over the married woman'S eligibility
to service. The Board of Education has
finally declared by a vote Of II to II not to
employ married women as teachers here
after.
The agitation was precpitated by reso-
luton offered by one of the members of the
board to the effect that the appointments OF
all married women teachers should be re-
considered and their places filed by single
women, says the New York sun. In sup
port OF his resolution the member advanced
the single but suggestive argument that
there are 800 unmarried girl graduates
in the city who are unable 10 obtain STU
ations as teachers. lie also stated very
emphatically that he was in favor OF solid
four-ply rule that will keep married women
out of the schools, for they have TO business
there while there is sufficient talent without
them"
One member advanced the traditional
theory that a married woman's place Is at
home and that she should stay with her own
family. Also, he further declared that If
wUman's husband doesn't support her
the schools are not made to take the
place of worthless husbands" Usually,
though. the married woman who teaches,
according to his idea, has become enamoTed
with the work or with the idea of earning
her own pin money, and not one in dozen
needs to teach, while, on the other hand,
there are plenty of INDECENT single women
yyh haya taf md hn will mt a ire h
ness and enthusiasm into the schools not
supplied by older teachers.
Another supporter.o the resolution urged
that there were hundreds of accomplished
young ladies' in the city that could not get EN-
poyment suitable to their intelligence and
station in life, while married women, whose
husbands are willing to support them, stick
to their places in the schools like leeches,
and IN conclusion said that If husbands Will
not provide Tor their wives they should be
compelled to do so. Somewhat less radical
were the views of another member, who
would have committee investigate the
circumstances of the married women teach
ers and not employ them If their husbands
are able to support them. This gentleman has
among his acquaintances a woman teacher
whoss husbands salary Is $500 per annuIn,
another teacher, whose husband is a we,l-
known and successful attorney, and Young
woman who graduated from the normal
with high honors. and is washing dishes at
n salary of 50 80 per week because there are
no vacancies in the list of teachers. The
Superintendent OF the board is of the opin-
ion that young married women should
not teach for obvious reasons. and
others should not because it is un-
natural Young ladies of intelligence and
education who have prepared themselves
for teaching in or der to help the parents or
other relatives, OF 10 support themselves in
dependently, and who deserve situations in
the schools, call on me every day, and | am
obliged to turn them away because there is
M nlacp for them -