Teachers’ Salaries
Sir, —Mark Humphrey is learning one of the facts of life which all primary school teachers have to face. Regardless of their academic qualifications, primary school teachers are treated as an under-privileged group in comparison with secondary school teachers. He is fortunate in that he is learning, the facts while he yet has time to become a secondary; school teacher himself. The discrepancy between his salary as a primary school teacher and that which he would get as a secondary school teacher will increase when he has completed his training. The maximum salary he will be able to advance to as an assistant teacher in a primary school will be about £3OO per annum below that which he could reach in a secondary school or district high school secondary department. Facts like these are the reason why all the high-soundihg speeches we hear about the need to attract better-qualified recruits for primary school teaching amount to nothing.— Vmirc pfp ASSISTANT MASTER. July 2, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 14
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