Teaching Responsibilities
Teach to grades 1 through 8 in one room at the same time: reading, writing, arithmetic, orthography, elocution, history, geography, agriculture, music, health, citizenship and penmanship
Basic qualifications
- Possess a certificate from the Board of Examiners
- Certifying passing grades on the teaching test
- Satisfactory certificate as to moral character
- Unmarried with willingness to remain unmarried for the duration of the teaching year and every year thereafter desiring to remain in the teaching position
Duties and responsibilities
- Before school opens and pupils arrive
- Arrive before 7 a.m., start fire to warm school
- Fill lamps, trim wicks, clean chimneys
- Provide bucket of clean drinking water
- Carry coal for stove
End of school day after pupils leave
- Tidy up schoolroom, sweep floor
- Clean blackboard, dust
- Remove snakes, small animals
- Other responsibilities
- Plan, supervise successful social and cultural events
- Scrub floor with sand and hot soapy water weekly
- Collect student tuition
- Treat snake, insect and small animal bites
Personal
- Be unmarried and remain unmarried during teaching term
- No cigarette smoking
- Refrain from using hair dye
- Wear at least two petticoats
- Keep dark or somber dresses no shorter that 2 inches above ankle
- Bring own bedding
Personal
- Be unmarried and remain unmarried during teaching term
- No cigarette smoking
- Refrain from using hair dye
- Wear at least two petticoats
- Keep dark or somber dresses no shorter that 2 inches above ankle
- Bring own bedding
