MAN TEACHER NEEDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 18

MAN TEACHER NEEDED.

CONTROL OF SENIOR BOYS.

EDUCATION BOARD'S PROTEST.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

DUNE DIN, Thursday.

"The board cannot, with any regard to its dignity and respect for the responsibility devolving upon it, refrain from entering its firm protest against being forced to appoint a female head teacher at Tuapeka Mouth against its own better judgment and in spite of incontestible facts."

These were the opening remarks of a report by a committee set up by the Otago Education Board to draw up a suitable resolution to 6end to the Department as a result of a protest by the Tuapeka Mouth School Committee against the appointment of a woman as head teacher of the school.

"The school in question is attended by a large number of senior boys, some of whom need a strong restraining hand and the direction of a man well versed in boy nature," the committee said. "In the senior division of the school there are 29 pupils, of whom 18 are boys. Standards 111., VI. and VH., consist entirely of boys. "The proposed appointee is a woman whose whole teaching career has been spent in the direction of pupils from Standard 11. downwards, and who, as a necessary consequence, has had no experience in the control of senior pupils and in disciplining boys of a large growth. The board is convinced that the appointment, if persisted in, will be detrimental to the welfare of the school, and it therefore asks the Department to reconsider the matter and reverse its decision." The appointment was postponed.