* Your dresses must not be any shorter than two inches above the ankle.

* To keep the schoolroom neat and clean, you must: sweep the floor at least once daily; scrub the floor at least once a week with hot, soapy water; clean the blackboards at least once a day; and start the fire at 7 am. so the room will be warm by 8 am.

- Buckeye Farm News

Here’s an illustration of "passing the minimum competency buck":

”College professor: ’Such rawness in a pupil is a shame. Lack of preparation in the high school is to blame.’

”High school teacher: ’Good heavens, what crudity; the boy's a fool! The fault, of course, is in the grammar school.’

”Grammar school teacher: 'From such stupidity may I be spared! They send them up to me so unprepared.’

“Primary teacher: 'Kindergarten blockhead! That preparation is worse than none at all.’

"Kindergarten teacher: 'Such lack of training never did I see. What kind of a woman must the mother be?’

"The mother: 'Poor helpless child. He’s not to blame. His father’s folks are just the same.’ ”

— Author unknown.

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