PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26857, 9 October 1952, Page 8

PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

TRANSFERS DURING THIRD TERM COMMITTEES PROTEST AGAINST SYSTEM The Canterbury School Committed Association last evening decided to protest against the system under which teachers were permitted to transfer to new positions during the third term at primary schools. Mr K. R. Milne (Wharenui) said h« had been asked to bring to the notice of the association the action of ■ teacher of Form II pupils, who successfully for another position during the third term and took up hi® new appointment during the term. He considered it a serious matter that the children in Form II at this late stage should be upset by losing their teacher. “Are these children getting a deal?” Mr Milne asked. He said M did not blame the teacher, but rather the system which allowed such a pro* cedure. He believed that a teacher who applied for a position at such » late stage in the year should J* allowed to take up his new appoint* ment at the beginning of the school year. “The children are MJ high and dry at a most important tiny in their primary education,” he saut The secretarv (Mr A. Greenwood’ said that progress had been made » the system during the last three o four years. Before that time, teacnerj had moved at any time. Now molt » them took up new appointment! • the beginning of a term. . Several years ago, the associauoj had asked that any teachers who been successful in applying for n e appointments carrying a rise in should not take up their appointment until the beginning of the next scnoo vear. and that the increased sa '*“, should be given them while they JJ' mained in their old position, Greenwood said. An amendment J* the act could not be made, however, as it was held that the higher salary could not be paid until the actually took uo his new appointmCD*“It is reallv tragic that the pupuj should lose their teachers at that tun® I 6f the vear,” said Mr Greenwood- • Mr Milne moved “that the associe* tion strongly protests against the B?’* tern which operates at the P re j e J. time, whereby teachers are enabled. w transfer to other positions at a vrt« time in a child’s primarv school edu' cation, namely the third term. a®» especially concerning Form II pupu* The motion was seconded by Mr * Claridge and carried unanimouily*