BOYS’ GAMES.
SHOULD WOMEN TEACH? i STIR IN ENGLAND. Women’s fitness to teach boys’ games, long a burning question in scholastic circles, is again being ventilated vit the various annual teachers’ conferences in England. Several masters have asserted that the boys detested women teachers. The Leicester conference- of the National Union of Schoolmasters passed a resolution in favour of men solely controlling boys’ games. One speaker asked how women, who were not apprenticed to boys’ pastimes, could teach lads wrestling, football, and turning Bomersaults. “The idea of women doing cartwheels makes you laugh,” said another speaker, who contended that there was already more than sufficient feminine influence in the schools. More would degrade men’s status.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 7
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