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Rules for Teachers ~ 1872 ~ Denman Island, B.C.

  1. Teachers, each day, will fill lamps and clean chimneys.

  2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for a days session.

  3. Make your pens carefully: you may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupil.

  4. Men teachers may have one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings if they go to church regularly.

  5. After 10 hours in school a teacher may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.

  6. Women teacher who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.

  7. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.

  8. A teacher who performs his labour faithfully and without fault for 5 years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
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