AN INJUSTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 20

AN INJUSTICE.

GRADING OF TEACHERS. DUNEDIN BOARD PROTESTS. (By to "Star.") DUNEDIN. this day. The injustice alleged to be done to a large number of teachers by the early issue of a partial revision of the grading list, by means of which students leaving college lia\'e an advantage over teachers whose grading is not announced until April, was referred to at a meeting of the Education Board, which carried a motion suggesting that the complete list should remain in operation until complete revision is made available. The mover said lie was not enamoured of the present system of grading, but it was incumbent upon them to see that the system, while it existed, was administered in such a way that no injusice would be done to any of the teachers. He instanced the ca9e of teachers who were still awaiting publication of their grading. The only way to overcome this was to make the existing list current until complete revision was made.

"I think we should make the position clear to the jublic, who don't quite follow what is going on," said the chairman. Mo explained that all probationary assistants were graded at December 31. They had been provisionally graded when they left college the year before the new grading was given to them, and in their applications for positions they used this new grading, which put them one or two weeks ahead of teachers graded in April last year, and whose new grading was not due "until this April. This was most unfair. When the board approached the Department about it, the latter stated that the board was entitled to consider only the first grading of such teachers. That .was to say, their grading when they left college. He understood, however, that another, board was making appointments from such teachers on their new grading.