The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-24
JEACHERSWHO WEDMUSI QUIT
nOtRD 0F EDCCATION WILL ASK
ALRiNY TO SAY 50,

with the Hope THAT the Courts WIN 'ph"id
lie Law n II Goes Through Mean
umr Sch0olma ans Are Marrying by
srorc,-Jdbs for New Ones Held Up.
Tho Board Of Education tackled the mar
,.J woman teacher question at it, meet
H., Yesterday, and as a result Cufit may
i.-oa few jobs in the case of schooma ans
r. was decided to try TO have bill passed
r., Albany preventing women teachers IN
,- CITY who marry from retaining their
,f5re- In the schools Henry Schmitt
brought up the matter.
Tho committee on legislation. said Mr.
echuitt. has carefully considered this mat
~ and an its membsrs are in favor of hav-
ina lass passed ON this subject. There is
,,,1e.urlc voice opposiugit. Our object is
- have a Law PASSED at Albany that will
,s constitutional and that will stand the
&C.,, If the courts Our former bylaws
nd mo- elect. and we must get an amend
mra, 20 the city quarter
,lr Sahm.tt introduced resolution that
a., committee ON legislation be authorized
>, g-of, n bli a-u cure It's passage by the
legislature by which female teachers in
n. New York public schools shall forfeit
teslr positions upon marriage. with the
rrov,lou. however that the Board Of Edu-
,st.on may in certain cases reinstate the
nmrIcd teacher"
Inc latter provision is meant TO cover
e,4os where the teacher becomes n widow
T., her husband deserts her or is a hopeless
iuRld
There was no one 10 speak for the women
ttgchcrs The resolution was adopted.
Tho board used to have n bylaw declaring
vacant the place Of any woman teacher
who married. A wear or 50 ago a woman
conceived a notion that marriage was not
a crime for which she could he expelled from
fro schools and she took her case 20 the
cDri. The Court Of Appeals ordered her
r4u,tatemont Since then no effort has
ben made 10 enforce the bylaw. Mean
fine so many women teachers have been
esttlnr mari "a that the board Of superin-
tsaiints IS kept busy changing the names
of tie TEACHERS
The elementary school committee handed
IN a list OF about forty names taken from
the eligible list for appointment as teachers.
About thirty of these are married
women said Chairman Wiisey. in tho
case Of some of them it will be necessary
T. suspend the bylaws to appoint them
We rejected twelve until we could in
yestigate further the propriety of appoint
ing them
IF they were on the eligible list what
right had your committee to reject the
twelve, whether they were married or notY'
asked Mr. Stern
Well said Mr. Collier. i looked into
this matter and found that some Of the
ladies were Of such an age that there might
lie trouble when it came time to retire them
On pension after thirty years OF service.
They would certainly be over sixty years
Old by the time they reached the pension
sse-
ilr Schmtt moved that the Est be laid
over for a month pending further investi-
cation = was 80 voted. Later Mr.. Wilsey
asked fora reconsideration.
-rrcre are some men on that list. and |
think we ought 10 appoint them RI ght away
That part OF the list containing the names
Of the women may be laid over" be said
So the list was reconsidered and inc men
were made teachers
Michael O'Sullivan Of the schoolship
s. VS. came in with squad Of uni
rrr sailor boys and received from
pres 1cnt Tiff q gold medal for having
rescued n drowning man from the East
River
Permission was granted TO DR.. N. !.
blank NJ Columbia University to obtain
information in the public schools in regard
to left handed and fight handed children;
Permission was also granted to the Charity
Organization Society to send circulars 70
teachers showing how tuberculosis may he
t..l