Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical teacher, 38, with one or more dependents, is physically healthier than most other U. S. citizens. He or she is absent from school for illness only three days a year, is likely to live to a ripe...
...mental health of teachers is below normal. The average teacher is a worrier. Two-fifths of them worry so much that it interferes with their sleep and efficiency. Chief of their worries: lack of money. A large proportion worry about the unsatisfactory progress of their pupils. Relatively few worry about marital affairs...
...Vigorously discussed was the new yearbook of the John Dewey Society, Educational Freedom and Democracy, written by a commission of nine progressive educators. The yearbook denounced meddling with teachers' freedom, cited patriotic groups, Government officials, a contract one teacher had to sign to get a job paying $637.50 a year in North Carolina: "I promise to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work. ... I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing and other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady. I promise not to go out with any young man except...
...Each apprentice teacher should be supervised only by such men as have had actual teaching experience in his field or in one closely related to it. A supervisor experienced in the teaching of the social studies can not be expected to understand all the problems of a language teacher...
Small Julia Hatcher, pupil at Hatcher School, Marked Tree, Ark., raised her hand. Said Julia: "I want to leave the room." Asked teacher: "Why?" Replied Julia: "Because the room is on fire.'' Out marched the children. Down burned the school...