YOUNG TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 5

YOUNG TEACHERS.

FEW POSITIONS OFFERING. POSTS HELD BY MARRIED WOMEN. (From Our Correspondent.) j NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. I "This board views with alarm the I ever-increasing difficulty of finding suit. I able permanent positions for young teachers who have completed their i training college course and probationary service, and earnestly requests the Minister of Education to investigate the matter with a • view to instituting a more satisfactory method that will rectify the existing grave injustice to the teachers referred to. In this re*|>ect the board strongly recommends that education boards be given defined discretionary powers concerning the appointment of married teachers." This motion was adopted by the Taranaki Education Board following a vigorous protest by Mr. S. G. Smith f-aiiist the present system of appointing teachers according to grading, and | (~... cn-diariy appointing married women. Mr. Smith said the position was becoming serious, so much so that, unless i the present policy was altered, few young men would be attracted as teachers for the future. Each education board should have discretion to appoint whom it considered most suitable for all appointments.'