TEACHERS’ RIGHT OF APPEAL
VIEWS OF MR A. C. NOBLE “My personal opinion is that the board of any school in consultation with the principal of that school should be in the best position to judge which of the applicants is best suited for appointment as first assistant, or head of a department, or senior mistress, or for a specialist post,” said the principal of the Christchurch West High School (Mr A. C. Noble) when the matter was discussed at a meeting of the school’s board of managers last evening. “They are the people in closest touch with the school and its particular nefeds, and would have the best interests of their school at heart. If, however, the appeal scheme is to operate, I feel that the length of service as a major recommendation for appeal is a decided weakness. “Further, in the machinery proposed. the apuellant has an unfair advantage in that he may appear in person, and the applicant whose appointment is in question does not. In the majority of cases, qualifications and gradings would be the same, and it is finally often only a matter of personality.”
A motion that the board does not favour the right of appeal by teachers against appointments was carried.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26129, 3 June 1950, Page 2
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