The Jersey City news., 1902-11-10

child for fear he'd go home and COM
plain, and we'd be hauled up on charges
Of corporal punishment! No, I'm satisfied
with men. s
One of the primary teachers of School
No. ] said:-'I had not heard anything
about it until now and l am not pre-,
pared to give my opinion on the qucs-
tion.'
A teacher in the primary department
of School No. said:--
i think the men are acpable of at
tending to the affairs of the Board of
Education and don't see why women
want to meddle with the city schools
for''
( Another teacher of School No. II said:
The present board of men have al
ways attended to the schools and given
us what we wanted within the limit of
their powers, and | am perfectly salts
fed. y
A primary teacher of School No. u
said:A
1T all depends who is appoints1 L. The
meetings of the Board are always at
night and don't think the women should
be compelled to be out at night. ! think
a married woman's place is at her home
with her family and she has her hands
full then without attending to the
troubles of our public school,
II think" said another teacher of the
same department of this school, that If
we had two women on the Board they
would individualize instead of general
izing I mean to say that they might
devote their interests in some special
schools and thus not generally benefit all
the schools"
s.We teachers are not so liza BILE to fare
so we'll with two women on the board
as we do now because the women are
more likely to look into our personal mat
ters," said primary teacher of No. IL.
What power will these two women
have anyhow? They will always be in
the minority on many of the questions
coming before the board said teacher
in No. 18 school.
A teacher in the primary of School No.
81 said These women may have more
time to go around and visit the schools
than the men, but I do not think they
could keep up the financial matters"
ssWhy, l read about it's matter in the
News Friday and laughed over it" said
a primary teacher Of School No. %, Il
am not one of these l"W Women's Rights
followers and I don't believe in women
\ rFYy-
taking part in public matters. These
women might do well as principals, but
when it come to do the WORK of the
Board Of Education I think the men are
more capable"
School, said:--" Although i have not Civ
sen the question much thought, | believe
that the appointment of two efficient we-
men as members of the Board of Educa-
tion would be a good thing. Whether
any good would be derived from such q
movement depends altogether on who is
Asssafa.ea. OF course, twa society Women
with no knowledge Or experience of the
education Of children would be of no use
whatever If women are appointed they
should have some knowledge of school af-
fairs. / think that women would pay
more attention to school matters. Men
attend to everything in general. but most
of their time is spent looking after things
outside of the school room. / believe
that II several competent women were
appointed the city would be benefited by
their services"
Miss May l.. Sheridan, also of the
High School, viewed the question in
somewhat the same light. She said
IF women are appointed they should
be broadminded and should have some
experience in teaching. Above all they
should have no fads or fancies. The
great fault with most schools nowadays
is the institution of innumerable fads in
place Of good sound teaching. say that
the women should be broad minded, be-
cause believe they would work injury
rahter than good if they were otherwise.
A tickle minded woman would be en-
tirely out of place as member of the
Board of Education. You know most
women If they held such position would
begin Sat once to display their authority
and would be simply overbearing. How
ever, Il believe that if the right women
were appointed the plan would prove
successful
Miss Sheridan's sister, Miss Margaret
Sheridan, who teaches in the Annex to
School No. j, was not of the same opin-
ion. She said she looked upon the men
as being fully capable of attending to
the business of the Board of Education
without the assistance of women.
II think that the present system is
very satisfactory" she added, "and see
no reason for change"
Miss Anna ]. Walton, primary depart
ment School No. 3, said
''Itaseems to me that the plan is good
one. If the right women were appoint
ed / belive they would do a great deal
of good for our Schools
An Iuv{sihla Sw aeha cart