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Show Rloerta ~resnman c. trl~-t:r. f-1·8 plans, ~· they alled them, teaching plans. And so we were really, I think, kept on our toes all the time, so to speak. And had to work hard. But even thought I had a verystrictprincipal, she had a sense of humour. It was in those days that we used to put on skits, the one that you saw a pictureof where I was the bridegroom and I had a flask, you know, nothing in the flask, but I pretended that! was drinking from it. And oh the principal loved thos ~ things~ She just realy laughed and laughed. 8ut when you were teaching, she was as strict as strict as she could be. Never smiled. She'd rap on the windowj in those days. The teachers did not have to be on the school grounds to police them as we did after. And all they had to do was hear her knock on the window and they stopped whatever behavior they were doing.--that was not looked upon as correct. L SO was she the one giving you those marking~ from 1 to 10. A Yes, that was not all the time. That was just about 2 years . ~nd so many teachers ,.......r were upset. One teacher who was a good teacher, rshe had a loud voice and you could hear it/ her out of the room sometimes., Mod that was the only thing that they had against her. And they took $400 off her contract forthe following year. Which was a lot of money bcause we started in with $75/month and we were only given ten mnths pay. So that was $750 a year. L They must have taken most O' ner salary. A So you see $400 is a 1 ot of money taken off. But th_ey stopped that because so many people were unhappy and 'had a lot of repercussions fan 'that. So after that, we weren't rated on a t scale of one to ten. L How long were you at this school. A I was at that school 25 years. I taught 1st grade, 2dd grade, 3rd grade and 4th grade in that school. And then I tuaght math. When I taught math,! taught mathematics in the fe~tR-f;- 4th grade, 5th grade and 6th grade. In that same school, all day long. But what I tried to do was such a big job that I was working all the time andtou'd go home and work until about one oclock in the mroning~because you could imagine the nu~~er of papers when you have around 250 students. L For the math class. A Yes. And to also see that the gifted children were taken care of as 1well as the slow ones. And it really k~pt me very busy. And I got to the point where I had trouble with myarm. I got so I couldn't write. It just wouldn't work. The fingers wouldnt work. So the doctor said I'd have to change positions . And theonly vacancy the followig year was infue 3rd grade/where I taught everything. AtUmusic again was the thing that I had trouble with. And I had to take more music lessons. And myolder brother, who was home at that time, every week he'd go over the following week's work with me becase we taught s~llable |
