The Jersey City news., 1902-11-10
Do TEACHERS
WANT WOMEN
Diversity Of Opinion as
to the Proposed APP
pointments in the.
School Board.
SOME Do,
SOME DON'T
Several Think They Would
Not Fare As Well With
Their Own Sex.
ODD, SOME WON'T TALK
Divided Between Awe Of the
Woman's Club and Board
Of Education, for Once.
Their Mouths Are
Closed.

There seems to be a diversity of epin-
ion among the public school teachers re-
garding woman on the Board OF El1ea-
ton. Some think she would be danger
Gus, others think she would be a nonen-
ity: others think she is not educated up
to it, and still others think she would be
great Improvement Many of the tea
chers who are also members of the Wo-
mans Club are emphatically against wo-
men on the Board, while others declined
to express their views because they had
taken no part in the action of the Wo-
mems Club on the proposition, and they
did not now desire to either favor or op-
pose the plan. :. ~
Many of the teachers interviewed were
apparently ayerse to being quoted on the
subject, or even discussing the question,
being afraid of the displeasure of their
principals and members of the Board of
Education.
Superintendent of Schools Henry Sny-
der refused to discuss the proposition to
appoint women as members of the Board
OF Education. He said thatEAhe would
always be satisfied with any directors
whom the Mayor would appoint.
One young teacher, prominent in the
primary department of Public School
MOI II, and also prominent member of
the Woman's Club, said when seen by
THE News" representative
You can just say that the teachers
don't want it. We have had no meeting
ciuoo tho Won, n MS Ct,,lx ,.,1ss4:.. mn
day, but when we do / shall bring the
matter up. / know all the teachers in
our school are opposed to it. / don't see
what good woman on the oBard could
do. We get everything we want now.
When we want, thing we report to
our principal, who reports to our especial
school director, who brings it up at the
next board meeting. and we usually get
it. They tried it in New York and it
didn't succeed. Why try it here? When
Mrs. Prentice spoke at the Woman's
Club education meeting, where this thing
was first brought up she said that in
her district in Brooklyn she had visited
forty or fifty teachers and she supposed
she had passed them many times on the
street without recognizing them, and had
hurt their feelings. i thought this was
pretty small, and / didn't suppose the
teachers really cared a pin, but that's
an example of a woman on a school
board. ! was going to get up and oppose
it in the club, but / thought what's the
use? y
Another young teacher in the Primary
department of No. 13, also a member of
the Woman's Club, said
What woman is capable? / can't
think of any. and what woman would
want it if she was capable. | wouldn't
You can just say for me, however, that
/ am in favor Of it if the Board of Educa-
tion is in favor of it, this with a shy
twinkle, I guess I'm safe in that. "Use
my name? Oh, no. please DON'T
Another member of the Woman's Club
young teacher in No. II, would have
nothing to say for publication, though it
is known that she has declared herself
against it to her fellow teachers.
There's just this much about it,, said
teacher in No. Z. Women have not
the name of being kind to their own sex,
and / for one wouldn't care to risk hav-
ing them OH the Board. think it is a
mistaken idea"
What women on our school Boardr'
lexclaimed one bright young teacher,
IIssyvhy they'd nishlte erpret everything we
Ibid. We wouldnt dare look cross at a