RULES

RULES FOR UTAH TEACHERS IN 1872

A list of teacher rules from an unknown school district date 1872 gave a sample of the guidelines teachers were to follow:

*Teachers each day will fill lamps and clean chimneys.
*Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.
*Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the students.
*Male 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 unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
*Each teacher should lay aside each month a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
*Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity 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, providing the Board of Education approves.