Teacher Contract from the 1920′s
October 22nd, 2009 | by Suki |Last night I was going through a stack of Educational Technology textbooks at a friend’s house when I found a reprint of a teacher contract that had us rolling on the floor!
Included in the contract were the following:
Miss ___ agrees:
• Not to get married. This contract becomes null and void immediately if the teacher
marries
• Not to keep company with men
• Not to ride in a carriage or automobile with any man except her brother or father
• Not to dye her hair
• Not to wear less than two petticoats
• Not to wear face powder, mascara, or to paint the lips
…and on and on!
Wonder what the contracts for male teachers looked like. Hmm…
To see a full copy of a sample contract click here