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Female Principal ??

posted 14 years ago by MikeTolliver
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Were there many female principals in 65 ? Just wondering.

Keep in mind that teaching was one of the first -- and, for a long time, only! -- professions in which women could not only succeed but excel! While there were many "schoolmasters" throughout the years, there were just as many "schoolmarms" :) Especially in America! Teaching has been, and still is, a female-dominated profession. I should know -- I am one. And so is my father, an elementary school music teacher. He is one of two men in his school. Female teachers still outnumber male teachers by something like 3:1 (and don't get me started on how few minorities become teachers! My school is almost entirely white, with maybe 2 Hispanic/Spanish teachers -- predictably, teaching Spanish). It wouldn't shock me in the slightest to see a female principal. Heck, I think my mom, who was in middle school in '65, mentioned a female principal she hated.

[–] rebekel 14 years ago

Wasn't she an assistant principal at first?

[–] califor123 14 years ago

I had a female principal in the 50s. Not in the biblical sense, though.

[–] stikfigure1 14 years ago

I was actually sort of upset and surprised that they didn't have a scene of her passing since she ment so much to Mr. Holland.

[–] lroy77 11 years ago

I thought she was in the audience in the end concert.

[–] road_runner_outsmarts_the_coyote 11 years ago

Are you referring to the woman sitting next to Mr. Walters? I think that was his wife, and that she sometimes helped with school functions?

[–] Caliane 11 years ago

My grandmother was a principal from 1957 to 1972.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2388) 5 years ago

I would think it would be more common back then--yes since women were closed off to so many other professions re sex segregation.