According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac of 1909, P.S. 154 welcomed 495 new students in the fall of 1908. There were nine teachers for 14 classes.
The first principal was Margaret Robertson Laing, a native of Canada. She earned $1750 a year–if she had been a man, her salary would have been $2750! A woman teaching for the first time earned $600, while a man who was new to the job made $900. Both men and women were paid an extra $50 a year if they had to teach boys!
Ms. Laing was the principal of The Windsor School, as it was known then, for 25 years. By the time she retired in 1933, there were over 1000 students in the school, and 27 of the teachers who had worked for her had gone one to become principals and assistant principals of other schools.
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Wonderful! I know that my mother loved her principal and all her teachers. She went to 154 from its opening until she graduated in about 1915.