The Jersey City news., 1902-11-11
WHAT TEACHERS
THINK.
Movement to Place Women
on School Board Still
Causing Discussion.
PROS AND CONS
One School Marin Thinks
Women Would Know just
What Should Be Done.
Another Says They
Wouldn't.

Teachers are still diversified in theil
opinions as to women as members Of the
! Board of Education. Some think tina
( that two would be too many and couldn't
! agree, others think that women knowing
| just what should be done in the schools
! would be in position to make recon-
mendations. To this last opinion, how
ever comes the objection that very few
women outside of principals and teach
ers know anything about the workings Of
school board, and it would never do to
put teacher or a principal on. Many
of the teachers shrink from the publicity
of such life.
| Miss Jennie Garry, of the grammar
| department of No. 4 School, when seen
by 'News" representative, said
''In my opinion the Board of Educa-
! tion is no place for woman. I know
| / should not care to be a member.
! The life is too public for a woman.
| Members of the male sex, think, can
| take care of the educational affairs of
! the city better"
Miss Garry was very emphatic about
| it.
Another teacher of the grammar de-
partment of No. School, who requested
her name kept silent, said:-
''Oh, don't think women could man.
age as well as men. Why, they would
never be able to agree. Then, again, it
is SO much better to talk with men about
the running of the schools. They can
do things in much more busiaess-like
way"
A teacher of the grammar department
of No. 2 School said
Women for members of the Board
of Education? Why, / think it would
be capital idea. Would know so much
better than men what children need, and
how to care for them better than men.
1t is most time that the women had their
say in matters of this kind"
A teacher in the grammar department
of No. p School who said she thought
it would be best not to use her name
said:-
WOMEN CAN'T AGREE.
"Oh! l don't think women should be-
come members of the Board of Educa-
ton. Men do so much better. 1t is a
hard thing for a woman to agree with
a woman, or, rather, transact business
with her, where, on the other hand, a
woman can get along so much better
with man. 1t is all well and good for
10, hax ba;v ~,
ters, but when it comes to schools, that
is, being members of the Board of Edu-
cation, they should step aside in favor
Of the men,"
Mrs. Mary Dalton, School No. II, ap-
proved the plan. She said:-''In my
opinion it all depends upon what women
are appointed. 1t seems to me that wom-
an, to be member of the Board of Edu-
cetion, should have some practical knowl-
edge of the system upon which schools
are conducted. Without such knowledge
she could do no good in such an office"
A teacher in Primary School No. 3
said:--'1 haven't thought much about
the advantage or disadvantage of having
women on the School Board, but on the
spur of the moment / should think it
would not be a good plan. In the first
place, very few people outside of prin-
cipals and teachers know the workings
of School Board, and a teacher cannot
be on the Board. A woman, in my opin-
ion, cannot fill position like that as
well as a man.
Another teacher in the same school
said she had though very little about
it and SO she could not say whether such
plan would be good or not.
Mrs. F. s. Clements, of the Primary
Department of No 8 School, when inter-
viewed, said:-' Really, / have not given
the matter any thought, and therefore
am not in a position to talk upon the ad-
visibility Of the idea of appointing the
two women on the board just at pres
ent"
COULD MAKE SUGGESTIONS.
Miss K. Murray, of Grade Three in
No. Is School, on Dwight street, said
this morning she believed some good re-
snlts might possibly come from the plac-
ing of women on the Board of Educa-
ton
Women know just what should be
done in schools for the benefit of chill