TEACHERS SEEK EXTRA HOLIDAY
Sir, —I read with disgust an item in your “General News” dealing with the blunt refusal of the School Committees’ Association of a request by teachers for an extra holiday. It was not the refusal to which I took exception hut the apparently unnecessarily rude way in which it was made. The interjections • about strikes struck me as particularly inappropriate, ir view of the loyal services rendered by teachers both within and out of school hours. These puerile scenes will just serve to show intelligent readers with what influences .teachers, who are expected to instruct children in the ethics of good manners and truth, have to contend. What a hope teachers have against a home influence such as motivated the interjections mentioned. Also, I wonder will these expressions of disproportionate anger serve to cement friendly relations between school committees and teachers.— Yours, etc., a * EDUCATED. August 14, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25271, 25 August 1947, Page 8
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