VILLAGE TEACHER.
SOME STRANGE DUTIES. OUTLINED IN ENGLAND. A village school teacher told the Liberal Summer School at Oxford (says a London paper) that, among other things, she is expected To make wills; Help choose wallpapers and curtains; Attend parish council meetings to give advice; Help a woman farmer; Coach a policeman for an examination; Fill in income-tax forms; Serve on the Women’s Institute committee; Act as secretary of the garden show; Organise outdoor sports; Call to see all the new babies; Visit the sick and the aged; and Cut old people’s hair, bob, and shingle. “And yet,” said Mrs M. WintringI ham, president of the Women’s National Liberal Association, “the qualifications for a teacher in the country seem to be only that she shall be more than 18 and vaccinated.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19991, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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131VILLAGE TEACHER. Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19991, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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