The Washington times., 1914-01-06
Women Win Over
Education Board

| NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Hymen appar'
| emily has won another victory. He Is
| by way of vanquishing the august New
York Board Of Education, who attempt
cd to put the ban on married teachers
and directed their antagonism pa-tlcu-
Iarly TO teachers who became mothers
| At its last meeting of the year the
board received a report from SuperIn-
tendent Of SCHOOLS William VI. Max
well, the figures in which would go ro
show that teachers increase in efficiency
after wedIock, 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 wEethcC or net those teachers
We're more efficient than the majority
who have remained unmarried while
teaching, and the superintendent was
ordered to gather minu.1 data about the
! Spinster teachers 10 be submitted IN a
| report in the near future. so that the
| board will be enabled 10 make more &c
curate deductions.
Before receiving his report IRON Su-
perintendent Maxwell, the board, by Il
! unanimous vote OF those present dis
| missed Mrs. Jcannct:S OTtman Gamss.
| a married teacher, Un the ground that
I when she applied for position. \
com nittcC, RECOMMENDING her dlSmisSa |,
reported that Mrs. Gamse had dclib"r-
! ately attempted to le"eITc the board.
Maxwell in his report, said there are
approximately l,:D women teachers in the
New York public schools who were mar
ried. or have been married. The num-
Der OF widows was not given. He took
li, of those 100, whose records have
been thoroughly investigated for the
purpose of arriving at his statistics.
They were rated in four degrees y,
Is, {. and -, each classification count
ing ten, eight, six. and four points. The
records were for -four Years before and
four years after marriage.
The ia. in the aggregate. produced
. rating of lO,"12 points for instruction
and 1886 points for discipline before
marriage. Alter marriage, instruction
II 376 points. This gave each Of the
III teachers an average rating Of ~
for instruction and 9i for discipline br-
fore marriage and oJ Tor instruction and
100 for discipline Iftcr marriage.
The fgUrcs showed that marriage i'm
proved the teachers aStOnishingiy IN
the matter ui discipline and also
brought up their instruction average t.
3, remarkable extent These same III
teachers, who showed such improve
tai of 2,4S9I. days in the school year
before they were married and 4.299 days
after marriage. giving them averages
Of 2l and IS days respectively.
a special report on nine widow teach
ers was made b. Albert Shields. di-
rector of refcrenc" and research o.
the board. The ratings Of the nine
were ~ for instruction and I6i for dis
ciplinC before marriage, and 40 and
Ig3 respeCtivelv. after. This gave them
individual averages OF g and 81 before
marriage and s. and lOl after. Il higher
average than those married teachers
whose husbands are Still among tn"
living. The average. absence OF the
widows was twenty y-threc days year
before marriage and tmrty-eight days
a year after. Figures were also COM
piled for siXty-ninC married teachers
who we're absent at the time tn" sta
tistics were compiled. These teachers
we're absent three times as much after
their marriage as before.