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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.
Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of their earnings for their benefit during their declining years so that they will not become a burden on society.
Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect their worth, intention, integrity, and honesty.
The teacher who performs their labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in their pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
To learn more about the rules teachers had to follow in the Wild West read
Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women in the Old West
