The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-01-06
BY Carlton Ten Eyck.
written for the United Press.

written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Hymen appar
emily has won another victory. He /
by way of vanquishing the august Ncy
York board of education, who attempt
ed to put the ban on married teacher
and directed their antagonism parti
cularly to teachers who became moth
ers.
AT Its last meeting of the year TIN
board of education received a repor
from Superintendent Of Schools vii
liam H. Maxwell, the figures in which
would go to show that teachers in
crease In efficiency after wedlock, al
though they are absent from their du
ties many more days in the year thai
when they are unmarried.
There are no statistics in the report
to show whether or not those teachers
were more efficient than the majority
who have remained unmarried while
teaching and the superintendent was
ordered ~ gather L Lutte data about
the spinster teachers to be submitted
in report n the near future, SO that
! the board will be enabled to make
more accurate deductions.
Deceived the Board.
LOT ofxrtr, ], t.
Superintendent Maxwell, the board, by
unanimous bOte Of those rr, sent,
dismissed Mrs. Jeanette Ortplan
Gamse, married teacher, on the
ground that she concealed the fact OF
her marriage when she applied for a
position. A committee, recommending
her dismissal, reported that Mrs.
Gamse chad deliberately attempted to
deceive the board"
Maxwell, in his report, said there are
, approximately 1900 women teahcers In
the New York public schools who are
married, or have been married. The
number or widows was not given. He
took ia, of these 13O0 whose records
have been thoroughly investigated for
the purpose OF arriving at his statis-
tics. They were rated in four degrees,
A, B, c, and D., each classification
counting 10, 8, 6, and points The
records were for four years before and
four years after marriage.
The ia, in the aggregate produced
a rating of 1892 points for instruction
and 1876 points for discipline before
marriage. After marriage, instruction
rose to 1O,87S points and discipline to
1876 points. This gave each Of the
ia teachers an average rating of 81
for instruction and 81 for discipline
before marriage and 95 for instruction
and 100 for discipline after marriage.
Marriage Improved Teachers.
The figures showed that marriage
improved the teachers astonishingly |
in the matter Of discipline and also
brought up their instruction average
to a remarkable extent. Those same
ia teahcers, who showed such i'm
provement in their work, were absent
a total Of 2,4491 days in the school year
before they were married and 1929
days after marriage, giving them aver
ages of 81 and % days respectively.
A special report on nine widow
teachers was made by Albert Shields, }
director Of reference and research of
the board of education. The ratings
of the nine were 722 for instruction
and 764 for discipline before mar
riage, and 776 and 1872 respectively
after. This gave them individual aver
ages of 80 and "a before marriage and
96 and 101 after, higher average than
those married teachers whose hus-
bands are still among the living. The
average absence Of the widows was 20
lays a year before marriage and 38
/ year after Figures were also COM /.
)iled for SO married teachers who
we're absent at the time the statistics
we're compiled. These teachers were
Ibsent three times as much after their
marriage as before.
Threatened with OstraciSm.