Conclusion

Abstract

Elementary teachers vigorously opposed a plan by the Board of Education to create a new path to becoming a teacher in 1907. Under the new plan, intending teachers would go on to secondary school with the aid of a bursary instead of apprenticing as pupil teachers at age thirteen. They would now spend little time in actual elementary schools until after training college (though there was a temporary, optional student teaching scheme which allowed them to spend several days a week in an elementary school during their last year of secondary school if they chose)....