Teaching Rules - 1872
Rules for Teachers
- Teachers will fill the lamps and clean the chimney each day.
- Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's
sessions.
- Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual tastes 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 improper conduct will be dismissed.
- Every teacher should lay aside from each day's pay a goodly sum of his earnings.
He should use his savings during his retirement years so that he will not become
a burden on society.
- Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, visits pool halls or public
halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give good reasons for people to
suspect his worth, intentions, and honesty.
- 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.
Rules for Students
- Respect your schoolmaster. Obey him and accept punishments.
- Do not call your classmates names or fight with them. Love and help each other.
- Never make noises or disturb your neighbors as they work.
- Be silent during classes. Do not talk unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Do not leave your seat without permission.
- No more than one student at a time may go to the washroom.
- At the end of class, wash your hands and face. Wash your feet if they are
bare.
- Bring firewood into the classroom for the stove whenever the teacher tells
you to.
- Go quietly in and out of the classroom.
- If the master calls your name after class, straighten the benches and tables.
Sweep the room, dust, and leave everything tidy.