New-York tribune., 1913-10-23
TEACHER-MOTHER LIST
INCLUDES MRS. BECKER
Wife of Convicted Police Official
ON Prescribed Roll Of Ed
uCation Board.
YEAR AWAY FROM DUTIES
Her Child Did Not Live-School
Authorities to Investigate the
Classroom Efficiency of
Married Instructors.

The name. Of Mrs Helen l.. Becker
wife of Charles Becker the convicted
police lieutenant, was one of fifteen sub
n,Itted TO the Board Of Education yester-
day bv DR. William II. Maxwell, the city
Superintendent. in report on teach-
ers who had become mothers since Janu-
airy |, 1913. 1t showed that Mrs. Becker
was absent without pay from September
1912. TO September. 1913. II was in Janu-
AIRY that she became a mother The
child did not live. Ultimate dismissal OF
all teacher-mothers Is the aim OF the
board
In nine of the fifteen cases designations
had been received The names of those
teachers who had not resigned and men
toned i'm the report are
Mrs. Katherine & Edgel. Erasmus Hall
! High School Brooklyn; absent from
February l., 1918, to June e. 1913: now in
school
Mrs Della Troy Hail. Public School 40.
Manhattan; absent from June. 1873 to
date OF suspension, october 9. 1913.
Mrs. Sarah G. Martin, Public School l6'
The Bronx; absent from January 3. 1885,
suspended by district superintendent on
April %. 1913.
Mrs Hattie V. Barre. Public School s.,
Brooklyn; absent from September 3. 1913.
to date substitute additional teacher.
In Manhattan the following teacher
mothers resigned. some OF them previous
TO the action of the board. on october ,,
| in calling for a list of such cases:
Mrs Ada NJ Mirsky. Public School lS7.
Resigned September 1918.
Mrs Gertrude NJ. Rado. Public School
49, Resigned October /. 1913
Mrs Anna H. Treman. Public School
| l66. Resigned April /. 1913.
! Mrs Josephine NJ. Isaacs. Public School
| l35. Resigned June I. 1918.
Mrs Frances q. Brandmarker, Public
School Sc Resigned January 3, 1918
Mrs Agnes W. Kent. Public school lbS'
Resigned February !, 1913
Mrs Celia H. Scherman, Public Schoo!
| s. Resigned October !, 1918.
In Brooklyn there were two resigna-
! tions. as follows:
Mrs. Annie l.. Landers. Public School
| l26 Resigned October Is. 1913.
Mrs Sarah NJ. Liggan, Public School oi'
Resigned September $, lgl3
In Queens there was one resignation
! Mrs Helen f.. Davids, Public School 81
who resigned June /. 1913.
The board on october passed resoIu-
ton calling on the City Superintendent to
| report all cases similar TO that OF Mrs.
| pcixotto. a teacher-mOthcr. whose case Is
now i'm the courts, occurring from Jahu-
AIRY of the present year. In conjunction
with his report Mr. Maxwell said:
I'VE have found also number OF other
cases of long absence on the part OF mar
r,ed women teachers since January !, 1913.
hut We have no reliable information that
these cases were similar to that OF Mrs'
PeiXotto.'
The investigation will be continued.
In view of the prominence given 10
thu. tcacher-mother problem President
| Churchill suggested yesterday that IL
might be advisable to take some steps
| looking TO an investigation of the eHl-
| cheney Of married teachers. AZ a result
| Miss Martha Lincoln Draper introduc@l
| this resolution, which was passed:
Resolved. That the City Superintendent
! be requested to investigate and report on
! the absence ana Tecoio VI '"' '"'
| teachers In the system
Dr. Ira :. VILE. who has been hghunS
| against what he terms the ''penalizns oil
motherhood" declared after the meetihh
that ne believed the opposition was weak
| ening.
Mrs. Edgelrs case will probably come
up at the next meeting OF the conlil'tee
on high schools, on October ~ l"'
other cases will come up at the meetii'H
of the elementary schools committee 'he
first week I'm November.
The committee on part-tlme cohui''o''
I'm The schools submitted a report yester'
day which showed that there had been
reduction Of 1865 part time pupils III th'
elementary schools. In September 1915
there were 1861. as against %.E2 las'
year at the same time.