Hello to you all!

Soooooooo work has been going by extremely quickly! It's already WEDNESDAY! Insane! Welllllllllllll not much has changed in my life, same ole boring me. Just trying to keep really busy with non-important things...ya know? Soooo this week I'm a traveling teacher, which means I go from Room to Room because they are using my room as a TEST SITE for seniors taking the TAKS. So they have me floating and I hatttttttttttte it!! But its almost over!

soooooooooo

i need to make cute plans for the weekend. I cannot stay indoors!!! ugh! I want to take a cute road trip to a neighboring city and just explore. U know!?

What to do, what to do?

so i have a peel-by-date calendar on my desk, and here is what it has on it today. --1915 Rules for Teachers, 1. you will not marry during the term of your contract. 2. you are not to keep company with men. and 3. you may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man unless he is your father or brother.
Crazy right!!

here is a full list of the 1915 rules..[i guess mostly women taught back in the day!!]
Rules for Teachers (circa 1915)
1. You will not marry during the term for your contract.
2. You are not to keep company with men.
3. You must be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
unless attending a school function.
4. You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores.
5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have
the permission of the chairman of the (school) board.
6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man
unless he is your father or brother.
7. You may not smoke cigarettes.
8. You may not dress in bright colors.
9. You may under no circumstances dye your hair.
10. You must wear at least two petticoats.
11. Your dresses must be not be any shorter than two inches
above the ankle.
12. To keep the school room neat and clean, you must: sweep the
floor at least once daily, scrub the floor at least once a
week with hot, soapy water, clean the blackboards at least
once a day, and start the fire at 7 a.m. so the room will
be warm by 8 a.m.

even older rules!!! loves them as well

Rules for Teachers 1872*
1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session.
3. Make your pens carefully. You many whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
4. Men teachers m ay take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden to society.
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in nay form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will given reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity, and honesty.
9. 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.
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Rules for Students 1872*
1. Respect your schoolmaster. Obey him and accept his punishments.
2. Do not call your classmates names or fight with them. Love and help each other.
3. Never make noises or disturb your neighbors as they work. Be silent during classes.
5. Do not talk unless it's absolutely necessary.
5. Bring firewood into the classroom for the stove whenever the teacher tells you to.
6. If the master calls your name after class, straighten the benches and tables, sweep the room, dust and leave everything tidy.