Teacher Ousted for Allowing Dance Party

1922

SCHOOL HOUSE USED FOR DANCING PARTY

And Now the Lady Teacher at Eminence, Kas., Has Been Deprived of Certificate — Accused of Breaking Law.

By the Associated Press.

EMINENCE, Kas., June 7. — Not counting prairie dogs and jackrabbits, this western Kansas village had ninety- two inhabitants at last count, most of whom do not consider dancing sinful. But because she permitted a dance to be held in the school house, the school ma'am, Mrs. Clare White, has had her teaching certificate revoked by Miss Lorraine Wooster, state superintendent of education.

Eminence is thirty miles from the railroad, and though that is not as far as it was before the days of the flivvers, still amusements are not exactly plentiful. What there are the community has to evolve for itself and community dances were favored. Mrs. White says, however, that since she allowed a dance to be held in the school house and attended it, she has been informed by the state superintendent of education that she has broken Kansas laws, and trifled with the dignity of the commonwealth.

For that reason she has been officially informed that her teacher's certificate will not be renewed.

Mrs. White has written to the state board of administration protesting against the action. She says there was not a thing objectionable about the dance and it was a perfectly proper use for a school house outside of teaching hours.

—The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 8, 1922, page 1.