PROMOTION OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12545, 14 July 1906, Page 6

PROMOTION OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.

m — (SPECIAL TO "THK rBKSS.") DUXEDIN. July 13. In discur-sing the question of the promotion of teachers, at tho Educational Institute, tho president said the guiding principle in the promotion ot teachers should bo that teachers would riso in tho service stop by step from ono gredo to the grado higher, and not !>e able to jump from ono gredo to ono several /steps higher. Another member said tho Department should provide means whereby teachers throughout tho colony cculd know whero vacancies occurred. Justice was not meted cub to country teachers under the present conditions. .Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., said if tenchers would put together a workable scheme, nnd it was placed boforo Parliament, it would be adopted. A member of the School Committees Association said teachers were the most cruolly paid body of public servants iv tho colony. Air Davidson said he was siiro the late Minister of Education wer- nrulor tho impression that payment by averago attendance had been abolished, but the facts proved this was not e-o. It had not been abolished, and resvik was that salaries were on a worse footting than ever.