Abstract
This paper is a case study of an offence committed by a Galician teacher, Stanisław Szołajski, who overstepped the social norms related to his profession, social gender and social status. The author analyses the case of Stanisław Szołajski, a professor of history and geography at the Gimnazjum School in Jarosław under Austro-Hungarian rule, who committed an act against social conventions. That event is a pretext for reflecting on how young secondary school teachers found it hard to adjust to the environment of provincial towns and get disciplined by school supervisors, which became a real problem, especially during the Great War. Szołajski, through his loss of self-control and provoking a public row, broke the moral norms ascribed to men and male teachers. That event shows that apart from granting sick leaves in the Galician school system, no psychological support was provided for the teachers who had difficulty adapting to a new environment. Those who did not conform to social norms were just moved to new schools in other places or dismissed altogether.
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