Rex, Ida H. - 1881

Shaefferstown Shavings

Educational - Matrimonial - Philosophical And General
Our school district is coming to the front in its partiality for female teachers.  It is not long since our people were very decided in their opposition to female teachers, but things are being revolutionized.  The “school marms” that we have of late years employed, have as a rule given such marked satisfaction to pupils and parents, that the demand for the formerly much-abused “marms” has grown apace.

That we have a male teacher for our grammar school, is in part if not altogether, due to the fact that Miss Ida H. Rex, the young lady who taught the school with such eminent success last year, would not again accept the position.  If any one <sic> had predicted such a state of things several years ago, the majority of our venerable townsmen would have hooted at the idea.  But we are happy to note the change.  It is a move in the right direction.  Whatever may be said of the comparative mental capacities of women as pitted against those of men in a general sense, it is true that women excel in the art of teaching children.
~ The Lititz Record, 21-Oct-1881, Page 3, Column 2