The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-02-16
Board of Education Will
Refuse Employment to
Married Teachers.
BOARD HEARS REPORT
Married Teachers Now En-
plOyed in Kenosha Schools
May Retain Positions.

Important action on an important
question long anticipated was taken at
the regular meeting of the board of
education Tuesday evening when the
board accepted the report of the rules
and regulations committee STIMULATING
that since the percentage of married
women teachers in Kenosha was so
unusually high, it must be reduced.
The committee recommended that no
additional married women be employed
as regular teachers, but that those
married women now employed in varl-
Gus faculties of the Kenosha public
schools be allowed to retain their
positions.
The question of married teachers
has been attended with good deal Of
discussion in Kenosha in the past year.
1t seemed as though Kenosha, of all
large cities in Wisconsin, was hardest
hit by the problem. The action of the
board met with no opposition last
evening and it is expected that the
report of the committee will settle the
question for good so far as Kenosha
is concerned.
Organizations in Favor.
Communications were received and
accepted by the board of education
from the Kenosha College club and the
Catholic Woman's club placing these
organizations on record as favoring
the employment of married women as
teachers in Kenosha schools. Each
letter was accompanied with a long
list of commendable reasons for such
a step. In view of these communica-
tions and other recommendations made
to the board in the past, the committee
on rules and regulations drafted the
following report:
"Your committee on rules and regu-
lations, to whom was referred the mat
ter of employing married women as
teachers in the Kenosha public schools,
has canvassed the situation in Keno
sha thoroughly. We do not find con-
siderable number of single women out
of situations as result of the employ
ment of married women as teachers,
and we feel that no drastic action is
necessary at this time.
Numbers Should Be Reduced.
"We do feel, however, that the per-
centage of married women in Kenosha
schools is unusually large, and this
should be reduced. We would, there
fore, recommend that no additional
married women be employed as regular
teachers, but that those now under
contract be given the same considera-
ton as unmarried teachers.
"We would further recommend that
the form of contract be so changed as
to embody the following regulations:
81. Any teacher who shall have been
married before the signing of her con-
tract for the coming year and who
shall fail to use her married name
shall thereby forfeit her contract.
"2. Any teacher who marries after
the signing of Ter contract shall there
by forfeit her contract.
"We would further recommend that
the term married women in this con-
nection shall not be construed to in
clude widows or married women de-
ponQenG OH IuSII OWn LSSOuLCSSs
"Signed: C. A. Leonard Jr, John I.
Chester, J. W. Blair, Charles F. Bork-
enhagen."
Renew Dental Clinic.
Other business came up during the
routine sessions of the board, includ-
ing the report of the dental clinic,
showing that in the past year 1,003
pupils were treated in the clinic, a
very gratifying report. The board rec
commended that the clinic be retained
to work for the public schools for az
other year.
A second request for the use of the
Washington school auditorium for re-
citals by Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Cong
don, was again refused. The board in
sisted that the auditorium was to be
used only for public school activities.