Shortage Of Teachers
Sir,—“Doremus Jessup” suggests that primary teachers should join their friends in the secondary service in taking a stand for smaller classes for the children’s sake. The truth is that they dare not. About nine years ago there were five men assistants at a city school. Two of the most senior of these, both B.A.s protested at a teachers’ meeting over the introduction of the present grading scheme. The three who did not protest are now headmasters of large city schools, although only one of them is a graduate. Of the two who protested, one is a first assistant and the other a second assistant, and both have been so treated by the grading officers that they are unlikely to rise any higher in the service. Lessons such as this are not soon forgotten and most primary teachers find it best to keep silent about their grievances however well founded these mav be.—Yours, etc., OUTER DARKNESS. August 30, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31152, 31 August 1966, Page 12
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