Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-01-05
New York Board Of Education Ascer.
pear in Great Numbers to Seek
Places Easter Island.
BOARD HAS BEEN HOSTILE
TO MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS
Had Just Dismissed One Woman for
Holding Job, Though Married by
Saying She Was Single.
BY CARLTON TEN EYcK.
written for the United Press

written for the United Press.)
New York, JAN 5.-Hymen apparent
ly has won another victory. This by way
Of vanquishing the august New York
board of education, who attempted to
put the ban on married teachers and
directed their antagonism particularly
to teachers who became mothers.
AT its last meeting of the year the
board Of education received report
from Superintendent of Schools William
H. Maxwell, the figures in which would
go to show that teachers increase in
efficiency after wedlock, although they
are absent from their duties many more
days in the year than 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 to gather minute data about
the spinster teachers to be submitted in
a report in the near future, so that the
board will be enabled to make more ac-
curate deductions.
Before receiving this report from Su-
perintendent Maxwell, the board by a
unanimous vote of those present, dis
missed Mrs. Jeanette Ortman 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 delib.
erately attempted to deceive the
board. "
superintendent Report.
Maxwell, in his report, said there are
approximately 1900 woman teachers in
the New York public schools who are
married, or have been married. The
number Of widows was not given. He
took ia, of those 1900, whose records
have been thoroughly investigated for
the purpuose of arriving at his stats,
tics. They were rated in four degrees,
A. B. c. d. each classification counting
TO- s, 6, and 4 points. The records were
for four years before and four years
after marriage
The ia, in the aggregate produced a
rating of 1882 points for instruction
and 1896 points for discipline before
After marriage, instruction
rose to lO,s7S points and discipline to
1876 points, This gave each Of the la
teachers an average rating Of 81 for in.
stmction and "a for discipline before
and 05 for instruction and 100 ,
for discipline after marriage
Improved Discipline
The figures showed that marriage i'm
proved the teachers astonshingly in the
matter of discipline and also brought up
their instruction average to a remarka.
BILE extent. These same III teachers,
who showed such Improvement in their
work, were absent total Of 2ll9& !
days in the school year before they |
were married, and 1899 days after mar.
riage, giving them averages Of 81 and
2S days respectively
A special report on nine widow teach.
ers was made by Albert Shields, direc.
tor Of reference and research Of the
board of education. The ratings of the
nine were 729 for instruction and 764
for discipline before marriage, and no
and 792 respectively after, This gave
them individual averages Of % and Of
before marriage and 80 and lOl after,
u higher average than those married
teachers whose husbands are still amoug
the living The average absence Of the
widows was % days u year before mar.
riagc and IS days a year after, Figures
were also compiled for 60 married teach.
crs who wero absent at the time tho
statistics were compiled, Those teach.
ers were absent three times as much af.
ter their marriage rs before