Old-time schools and school-books . On the Way Home. V SUMMER SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES THE old-time summer schools were nearlyalways kept by women. A man would havebeen considered out of place — would havehad an unnatural appearance presiding over a schoolat that season. The women teachers were usuallyyoung, ambitious girls, eager to earn enough to A Summer School as pictured in Bolless Spelling Book, 1831. allow them to attend an academy for a term or of them married later; but others lived onas schoolmarms, sometimes sweetening as theyripened, sometimes quite the contrary. The law orde
Old-time schools and school-books . On the Way Home. V SUMMER SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES THE old-time summer schools were nearlyalways kept by women. A man would havebeen considered out of place — would havehad an unnatural appearance presiding over a schoolat that season. The women teachers were usuallyyoung, ambitious girls, eager to earn enough to A Summer School as pictured in Bolless Spelling Book, 1831. allow them to attend an academy for a term or of them married later; but others lived onas schoolmarms, sometimes sweetening as theyripened, sometimes quite the contrary. The law ordered that the teachers should havegood moral character and competence to teach the135 136 Old-time Schools and School-books. The End of Recess. required furnished awoman, however,the surest passportto employment wasto be related tosome was all-power-ful in his district,and while hisdaughters or sis-ters, of course, hadfirst chance, if noneamong these closerrelatives had anxi-ety for the place,there was oppor-tunity for the moreremotely con-nected. Thepartiality of theprudential com-mitteeman in thisrespect was pro-verbial, and nolittle friction re-sulted from thef a m i 1 y arrange-ments he was wontto make. Occa-sionally the discus- Summer Schools and Academies 137 sion would split a school in two, and a portion of thefamilies in the district would secede and set up aschool of their own in some dwelling or shop ; but asa rule nothing was done until the next annual meet-ing, when another committeeman might be chosenand a new dynasty substituted. The employment of women in the public schoolshad become general, and coincident with this recog-nition of their value as teac
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