Following Western Australia's convict era, 37 ex-convicts were appointed school teachers in the colony. The appointment of such a large number of ex-convicts to what was considered a respectable government position was highly unusual for a penal colony, as the social stigma of conviction usually excluded ex-convicts from such positions.
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| - Following Western Australia's convict era, 37 ex-convicts were appointed school teachers in the colony. The appointment of such a large number of ex-convicts to what was considered a respectable government position was highly unusual for a penal colony, as the social stigma of conviction usually excluded ex-convicts from such positions. (en)
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| - Capel, Western Australia
- Robert Mewburn
- Barracks Arch
- Bejoording, Western Australia
- Penal colony
- Perth, Western Australia
- Rica Erickson
- Upper Swan, Western Australia
- Australian crime-related lists
- Desertion
- Australia education-related lists
- Octavius Ryland
- Goomalling, Western Australia
- Convict era of Western Australia
- Cornelius Hardy
- Ludlow, Western Australia
- Fred Carter (convict)
- John Hislop
- John Hubbard (convict)
- dbr:Picton,_Western_Australia
- William Perrin (convict)
- Social stigma
- Swan River Colony
- Australind, Western Australia
- Bunbury, Western Australia
- Toodyay, Western Australia
- Western Australia
- William Hammond (ship)
- James Elphinstone Roe
- James Hasleby
- James Humphrey (convict)
- James Lloyd (convict)
- Albany, Western Australia
- Lists of Australian people by occupation
- Northam, Western Australia
- Northampton, Western Australia
- Geraldton Guardian
- John Warren (convict)
- dbr:Dumbarton,_Western_Australia
- Greenough, Western Australia
- Jarrahdale, Western Australia
- Australian schoolteachers
- Convictism in Western Australia
- Theodore Richards (convict)
- Thomas Berwick
- William Jones (Australian convict)
- Dongara, Western Australia
- Marrinup, Western Australia
- Western Australia-related lists
- Serpentine, Western Australia
- York, Western Australia
- Lists of educators
- Mandurah, Western Australia
- Quindalup, Western Australia
- William Chopin
- dbr:Buckland,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Ferguson,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Katrine,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Minninup,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Mourambine,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Newleyine,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Parkfield,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Quellington,_Western_Australia
- dbr:Seven_Springs,_Western_Australia
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| - Following Western Australia's convict era, 37 ex-convicts were appointed school teachers in the colony. The appointment of such a large number of ex-convicts to what was considered a respectable government position was highly unusual for a penal colony, as the social stigma of conviction usually excluded ex-convicts from such positions. The appointment of a large number of ex-convicts as school teachers was largely due to the poor levels of education in the generation of Western Australians who had been children when the Swan River Colony was first settled. Many of them were illiterate or barely literate, and so unsuitable for appointment as school teachers. Those settlers who did have a good education were in high demand, and were not attracted to the low wages offered for teachers. On the other hand, educated convicts had little prospect of obtaining better wages or conditions than those available to teachers, and the position offered a chance to overcome the social stigma of conviction and obtain a respectable position in society. Although some settlers considered ex-convicts unfit to become teachers, most parents preferred that their children be educated by ex-convicts than not at all. Consequently, a total of 37 convicts were appointed school teachers in Western Australia between 1853 and 1900. Erickson (1983) has suggested that the use of ex-convict school teachers played an important role in the gradual breaking down of the social stigma of convictism. (en)
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