SHORTAGE OF POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS
Sir,—l hope that members and officers of the Canterbury Education Board noted the remarks made recently at a prize-giving about the conditions in the teaching profession and the consequent grave shortage of teachers. While living conditions in some school residences are reasonable, others are sub-standard. By a series of promises which the board has no intention of honouring, the resistance of teachers is broken down. Worse than that, committee men and teachers discover |that today communications to the board are not even acknowledged. School inspectors are disturbed at the degree of frustration prevalent in the homes of country, teachers. Surely the board must realise that in addition to pouring large sums of money into selected schools for show purposes it should recognise the important part played in the rural communities by the smaller and older schools. —Yours, etc., ITINERANT TEACHER. December 15, 1953,
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27226, 18 December 1953, Page 13
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