The
teacher's desk. Notice the quill pens, the bell, and the switches.
Rules for teachers in 1872
were:
1. Teachers each day will
fill lamps and clean chimneys
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session
3. Make your pens carefully (you may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils)
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a
week if they go to church regularly
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible
or other good books
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed
7. Each teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his
benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society
8. 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 his worth, intention,
integrity and honesty
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be
given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of
Education approves.
July 2000
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