STAFFING TROUBLES AT GIRLS’ SCHOOL

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30593, 9 November 1964, Page 12

STAFFING TROUBLES AT GIRLS’ SCHOOL

(New Zealand Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, Nov. 8. If Southland Girls’ High School was to set about doing its duty, it would think twice about opening its doors next year, said Mr A. R. Dunlop acting principal at the school Mr Dunlop described the staffing position as critical He said key posts in mathe matics, science, physics and English would be vacant for 1965. Mr Dunlop said he knew of young teachers, who would qualify in the mentioned subjects in a month's time. They had no positions, yet would rather remain unemployed than come to a place like Southland, especially in single sex schools, where a

normal healthy balance of sexes in the staff was missing. It seemed an impossibility to attract appropriate teachers south. Such a situation, Mr Dunlop said, seemed to indicate there was something terribly wrong with the school. “This is quite untrue,” he said. “It is difficult to imagine a more compact, happier school. “My opinion is that it looks as if it will be an impossibility to give 700 growing Southland girls a modern secondary education that other girls are getting in other parts of New Zealand—and education that the nation must give if it is to protect their future.”