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Smith's Cumulative Speller and Shorthand Vocabulary. Send for particulars of a free correspondence course in shorthand for teachers. his right to a seat in the board was in question. The contract was annulled. The vote for circuit judge in Milwaukee county was 28,500. Women could vote for the state superintendent. Where were they?-Milwaukee Free Press. Freeport, L. I., N. Y., is building a new high school costing $150,000. It has 7,000 population. A great anti-vaccination campaign is on in Evansville, Ind. Vol. LXXX. A Representative Organ of American Progressive Education May, 1913 FACT AND COMMENT The famous Edgell case has been discussed by the newspapers in all parts of the country. The merits of the affair seem plain and well defined. The New York board of education, which permits married women to teach in its schools, refuses to allow such a woman teacher a leave of absence for the purpose of bearing and rearing a child. This action is difficult to defend. If a married woman is to be allowed to teach she should not have a premium put upon her childlessness. It is contended that the New York authorities were consistent in their action in that they had tried to dismiss women teachers who married and had been reversed by the courts. What they tried to do may have been altogether proper; that is not the point under discussion. The fact is that married women teach in their schools under the protection of the law and despite the board of education. Their attempt to nullify in part the construction of the law puts them at variance, not, perhaps, with the law, but with the fundamental notions of the human race. In the plethora of letters and interviews printed on the subject of married women in the schools there is a discouraging lot of them that discuss the subject from the assumption that the school is for the teacher. "We do not want these women with husbands in the schools" is the burden of the comments; "we want the places for the young women who must support themselves." In this bright day of the world, when even postmasters are being picked for their ability to serve the public, it might be expected that in the domain of education the question, Who can best teach the children? ought to dwarf every other consideration. Can it be true that the educational department of our government clings more tenaciously than any other to the idea that its salaried positions are to be distributed to the necessitous? As above said, we are not discussing the matter of married women in the teaching business, but, were we considering that subject, the matter of what they do with their salaries would have no bearing upon the question. When men argue, as they sometimes do, against the equal pay proposition on the ground that they have families to support, they make a petty plea. And it may not be out of place to remind those who plead No. 7 It is not the matter of married women teaching, but of married women not teaching, that troubles Lodi, New Jersey. During the present school term in that place, it is said, there has not been a meeting of the board when a neatly written little resignation of some school teacher was not received, with the explanation, "Because I am to be married." When the latest epistle of this kind was received, the chairman of the teachers' committee said: What are we going to do? The ranks are being diminished so rapidly that I guess we will have to employ married men next term to guarantee that school work will be carried on. But why married men? When unmarried men marry they have to teach all the harder. * * * It is reasonable to suppose that the school specialist is just as important in his field of endeavor as the legal specialist or the medical specialist is in his. I have been a teacher, a principal, a superintendent of schools. Therefore, I believe I am more competent to manage a school, and to say what is best for a school, than either a lawyer or a doctor or a business man. If I am not more competent than either of these for this business, then there is no place for me in the schools; I am a failure, and someone else, a doctor, a lawyer or a business man, should be put into my place. These remarks of a schoolman, taken from the Brooklyn Eagle, contain nothing new or strange or disputable. They are simply well said and so worth repeating. |