The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-17
Welded Teachers To
 Retain Capacities
'Inside District Members Feature Board of Educa-
 ton Discussion New High School Courses Added

Married teachers in the district schools which during the past couple of years have come into the ..inside district'' will not be forced to resign their positions. How ever. this does not mean that their positions. when vacated will be filled by married women or that any teacher marrying in the fu- ture will be allowed to hold her position. This fact was brought out yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the board of education when d discussion took place con- corning rule changes.
 Holiday Question Tabled
 Acting in accordance with Mayor Frank Hayes veto of the rule changes adopted two weeks ago, the commissioners .yesterday passed a new set with the parts originally objected to by Mayor Ha1es deleted. The mayor vetoed the parts setting the new school calendar and ordering public schools to remain open on Colun1- bus day and Lincoln's birthday. This latter subject will be taken up in another amendment to the rules, possibly at the next meeting of the board.
 Married Women Discussed
 Mrs Florence Webster asked the board if it were not true that mar ried women who were teaching in the outside district schools have been retained by the department although there has been an unwrit- ten rule that married women, ac- cept in extreme cases where they have dependents, must not be so employed. She asked if this was a departure from the unwritetn or "sub-rosa" rules of the depart ment.
 President John J. Walsh exe plalned that one of the conditions under which the outside districts came in was that the married teachers in the schools would be left unmolested. They were mar ried before the districts came in, in other words, he explained. Mrs Webster claimed that this was equivalent to penalizing those in if they marry.
 President Walsh, calling atten- ton that Mrs Webster happened to be in the class of married wom- en affected, herself, asked her if she wished to have rule passed forcing the women in ques- ton out of their jobs. NO, do not wish it by any rhyme or req son." Mrs Webster retorted.
 Commissioner Vincent Miller supported the plan whereby the married women in the district schools be let alone and referred to the parable of the workers in the vineyard to show that there Is no discrimination. He explained that the board cannot help the situation as it was something that existed before the district schools "came in.
 "Was that all there was to it, was there no politics in it?'' asked Mrs Webster.
 No Discrimination
 Commissioner Martin Scully de- clared that there Is no discrimina- tion and that the rule will apply hereafter. In other words, the positions of the present married teachers will be filled by single women when they do resign and no teacher getting married will be re- tained on the teaching staff.
 Mrs Webster also asked questions about other rule changes which were adopted yesterday. She asked the reason for the change which provides for monthly reports by the school inspector to the school. house committee instead of the board and Supt of Schools Thomas Condon pointed out that the in- spector has always made such re- ports to the committee because