{"id":1815,"date":"2021-04-01T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-practicalfoundations\/?post_type=chapter&p=1815"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:18:47","slug":"for-women-to-teach-they-had-to-disavow-any-private-gain","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-practicalfoundations\/chapter\/for-women-to-teach-they-had-to-disavow-any-private-gain\/","title":{"raw":"For Women to Teach, They had to Disavow any Private Gain","rendered":"For Women to Teach, They had to Disavow any Private Gain"},"content":{"raw":"A history of education, Goldstein's\u00a0The Teacher Wars,<\/em> notes of private work for women that\r\n
It was radical to suggest women should teach in co-ed schools.\u00a0 In the early nineteenth century, only 10 percent of American women worked outside the home.\u00a0 Because the assumption was that public work of any kind was degrading to a middle-class woman, Beecher had to make the case that opening the teaching profession to women would be good for students and society\u2014not just for the women themselves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (2014, p. 20).<\/div>\r\nThis is amazingly powerful, this notion that so few people worked outside the home.\u00a0 We also have to consider that upwards of 90% of all Americans worked in agriculture at this time.\u00a0 It was about to change. . .\u00a0 ponder the immense uprooting of the American family that was about to occur. \u00a0Ironically enough, a reformer like Beecher\u2019s tactic was to insist that this was for public good and not the teacher\u2019s private benefit.\r\n\r\nWe still see\u2014even now\u2014echoes of this.\u00a0 I know of situations where parents get involved in schools\u2019 home and schools committees or attend board meetings and use the specific salaries of specific teachers as weapons.\u00a0 (This is the \u201cI know how much you make\u201d argument.)\u00a0 Teachers spend plenty of their own money.\u00a0 They ought not need to feel ashamed that they earn a salary.\u00a0 But moves are underway now to undercut the public school systems, tenure, and even guaranteed salaries.\u00a0 It was the right and not the left, remember, that urged merit pay for teachers.\u00a0 My point is just to be as self-aware as you may be of the connections between then and now.\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

A history of education, Goldstein’s\u00a0The Teacher Wars,<\/em> notes of private work for women that<\/p>\n

It was radical to suggest women should teach in co-ed schools.\u00a0 In the early nineteenth century, only 10 percent of American women worked outside the home.\u00a0 Because the assumption was that public work of any kind was degrading to a middle-class woman, Beecher had to make the case that opening the teaching profession to women would be good for students and society\u2014not just for the women themselves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (2014, p. 20).<\/div>\n

This is amazingly powerful, this notion that so few people worked outside the home.\u00a0 We also have to consider that upwards of 90% of all Americans worked in agriculture at this time.\u00a0 It was about to change. . .\u00a0 ponder the immense uprooting of the American family that was about to occur. \u00a0Ironically enough, a reformer like Beecher\u2019s tactic was to insist that this was for public good and not the teacher\u2019s private benefit.<\/p>\n

We still see\u2014even now\u2014echoes of this.\u00a0 I know of situations where parents get involved in schools\u2019 home and schools committees or attend board meetings and use the specific salaries of specific teachers as weapons.\u00a0 (This is the \u201cI know how much you make\u201d argument.)\u00a0 Teachers spend plenty of their own money.\u00a0 They ought not need to feel ashamed that they earn a salary.\u00a0 But moves are underway now to undercut the public school systems, tenure, and even guaranteed salaries.\u00a0 It was the right and not the left, remember, that urged merit pay for teachers.\u00a0 My point is just to be as self-aware as you may be of the connections between then and now.<\/p>\n

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