| 1. | Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys. |
| 2. | Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session. |
| 3. | Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual tastes of the pupils. |
| 4. | Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. |
| 5. | After ten hours in school, the teacher may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books. |
| 6. | Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed. |
| 7. | Every teacher should lay aside each day a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so he will not become a burden on society. |
| 8. | Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty. |
| 9. | The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves. |
| (from Country School Legacy) |
