Can you believe these teachers rules?

[Pappy]

Ah, the good old days, right.

 

[Warrigal]

Easy peasy. Now read what was expected of the bush teacher (female) of the 1880s

[h=2]The Bush Teacher of the 1880s[/h]

She may not have worn this dress in the daily teaching but when a photo was taken in those 'far off days' everybody dressed up.


Beneath that sweet exterior the Bush school teacher of the 1880s was more than just a pretty face
She had to be able to:

• Set a broken leg in a crisis
• Patch the shingles on the school roof
• Cook lunch on an open fire
• Wall paper the residence with newspapers to keep out the winter winds and snakes
• Stay fresh all day from a weekly swim in the dam
• Teach a class of children aged five to fifteen
• Ride a horse side saddle four miles to school and maybe carried a couple of pupils.
• Fight off swaggies who attempted to camp in the school
• Keep the school property free of goats and cattle
• Study at night for her end of year examination.

ALL THIS, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE
(Centenary Supplement Courier Mail 7-5-1975)

http://www.chermsidedistrict.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=258

 

[Aunt Bea]

No wonder that some of them were so strict!

I bet this teacher was a lot of fun!

 

[hollydolly]

WoW!!!....

 

[jujube]

I had an elderly friend back in the 1980's who had graduated from high school in Ohio in 1917, went to "normal school" for four months and then went to Kentucky to teach grades 1-8 in a one-room school.

She taught there for two years and then was caught having dinner with a divorced man in a nearby town. She was literally run out of town. They married and moved away, but she never was able to teach again.