WOMAN TEACHER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 9

WOMAN TEACHER

DIETS TO GET JOB FAILS: "TOO HEAVY" NEW FORK,. Dec. 21. .Miss Rose Freistaler, an American .school teacher, sft, 2in. tall, has been refused a license to teach in New York liecause she weighs 12st. 1311). The Hoard of Examiners of the New York City Board of Education state that their requirements as to weight and physical fitness are those adopted by insurance companies for standard risks. These requirements, they hold, are reasonable in view of the insurance aspects of the teachers' retirement system. "Teachers should, moreover, be acceptable models for their pupils in Die matter of weight." the board add. in answer to her appeal. Miss Freistaler applied for the license in March. 1931. 'the board agreed to issue the license if she could reduce her weight from the 13st. which she then weighed to lOst. 101 b. within six months.

At the end of six months she said she weighed list. 61b.. and asked for another month to get hev weight, down to lOst. 101 b. Hrr mother, she said, had been ill, and she had had to devote so much time to her that she had been unable to diet wholeheartedly.

Hev request was refused. She appealed. She said that while training, and as pcrii.anenl substitute teacher at .James MoH"ie High School, she had not missed a day in four years. The board of examiners, in refusing her appeal, stale Hint Miss Prcistater now wcjdied I2st. 131 b.. only 111', less than in 1932. which substantiated the original opinion of the physician who had examined her that any reduction in weight would be only temporary.