REFRESHER COURSES.
T would like to protest through your| columns against the recent closing of! schools to permit the teachers to attend a refresher course. My contention is that such courses should be held during the May or August holidays and should last for two weeks. The teachers surely do not need a fortnight's holiday in May when they have had six weeks in the summer, with a break for Easter. Their work* is light, with a minimum of hours. So if they need ten weeks' holiday, the average man must he a physical wonder that he can live to a ripe old age and have a mere fortnight per year (usually without pay). So is it not obvious' that these refresher courses should be held while the schools are closed rather than filch the time from the children just when they are settling nicely to the year's work, with another compulsory break for Easter looming up this week. PARENT.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 25
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160REFRESHER COURSES. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 25
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