School Board Won’t Employ Married Women

 ( Reported in Weston Democrat 4/16/1931

Exceptions will be made in cases where families are wholly dependent on women.  All teachers must have normal certificates.

The Lewis County board of education passed a resolution at a meeting last Friday banning the employment of married women whose families are not wholly dependent on them for support.

This order applies to all married teachers in the school system at the present time.  None of them will be reemployed unless their families are dependent on them, County Superintendent, W. W. Lovell stated.

Another order passed by the board provided that in the future, no teachers will be employed who hold teaching certificates with less than a standard normal rating.  Those now teaching will be exempted from this order, and those with short-course certificates will be given two years to qualify for standard normal certificates, and those with first-grade certificates will be given one year to qualify.  At the present time, there are two teachers with short-course certificates and six with first-grade certificates.