El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-17
An Injustice to Children
Barring Married Women from Teach
ing Because They Are Married
Is Unjust to Pupils.
Winffred Black
y o Mrs. Bridget Peixotto isn't fit


- o Mrs. Bridget Peixotto isn't fit
to teach your children and my
- children any more, because she has
had the impertinence to become a moth
er herself?
She was all right wnen she didn't
know a thing about children except
what she had learned in the school,
but now that she has a child of her
own, to the outer regions with her at
once and forever!
What a singular point of view
Where on earth did you get IT. men of
the board-from the man who always
says 'Haint she got no children of her
own to tend to; why don't she stay to
hum and tend to it?' whenever a WOm-
an dares to attend to her business
without asking some man about it2
What do you want in the public
schools, anyhow, lot of foolish girls
or a number of perfectly good old
maids?
If a woman is the sort of person who
doesn't want children of her own, does
that make her nideal teacher, pray
tell?
What is there about such a woman
that make her an ideal teacher, pray
children?
Children the Ones to Consider.
The children are the ones to be
considered, and 1 don't see how the
fact that a woman has a perfectly good
I little boy or girl of her own at home
could make her any less efficient as
a teacher than she was before that lit
tie boy, or that little girl came.
When you select man teacher do
you ask him how many children there
are at home, and whether he takes an
interest in them or not?
You ought to-the more children he
has of his own the more likely he is
to know and to care about other peo-
pies children.
Shell be thinking of the baby at
home" says one of the board, instead
of the children in the room where she
teaches"
Baby or "Him.,
What's the difference between her
thinking of the baby at home and
wondering whether the baby is asleep
or awake, and thinking about him"
and wondering whether he is COM
ing to call or not, and what dress she'd
better wear to the party?
Too much to think of at home to
attend properly to her school work?
Why, did you never notice that when
you want TO get a thing done you have
( to get the busiest person you know to
I do it?
The idle woman has nothing but
matinees on her mind, is always too
rushed to do a thing but go shopping.
When you want job well done, who
do you get to do it? The busy man
/ or the idler?
Which is the one who will do your
work and his own too, and do them
| both Well2
Human nature is human nature, just
| the same in a woman as it is in a man.
! The type of woman who falls hon
eStly in love and marries and has chill
/ dren, is the very sort of woman I'd pick
/ out to teach my little boy how to read
| and to tell my little girl where Lake
! Michigan is and who settled Alaska
Not because she might know any
more about reading or Lake Michigan
/ or Alaska than the other kind, but be-
| cause she's apt to know just as much
| about these thrilling subjects as the
! silliest girl in the normal" and, be-
1 sides that, she'll know a lot about
( children that the other sort of woman
| would never know if she Joined every
| child study class in the world
/ Not els He Married." But Is He Good.
/ Who wants to know whether the
1 school superintendent is a widOwer or
I a bachelor. when his name comes up
for electiOn2
What's his record; what will he do