Shortage Of Teachers
Sir, —Your leading article on this topic is timely. One point that has not been brought out is the way in which the department and education beards have been misleading the public about the “shortage.” They show cynical disregard of the fact that it is not the total number of teachers in the primary service that matters but the number who are personally responsible for teaching classes of children. Ether there is a crisis in primary teaching or there is not. If there is. the dozens of nonteaching “teachers” who dwell in sundry clinics and offices and the numerous roving “organisers’’ must be directed back to the classrooms. If classrooms are not available, they must be built. Otherwise talk of alleviating the shortage and of reducing the size of classes is nothing but a hypocritical smokescreen which serves only to exasperate the struggling class-teecbezs.—Yours, etc, CONCERNED PARENT. November 14. 1061.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29671, 15 November 1961, Page 7
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