Private Coaching By Teachers Condemned

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 16

Private Coaching By Teachers Condemned

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 26. The practice of teachers coaching students privately for financial gain was condemned by the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association annual conference in Wellington today.

A member of the associa-1 tion’s national executive, Mr t G. Warner, said teachers be- 1 longing to commercial coach-1 ing organisations were under-

mining the P.P.T.A.’s efforts to obtain professional status and higher salary scales for teachers. He said the practice was becoming more widespread because it was a symptom of the economic position in which young teachers were finding themselves. Some teachers who worked at or- ran coaching colleges solicited clients from the pupils at their schools. These teachers often made extravagant claims of examination success as a 'result of their coaching. “The final remedy is to expel these people—they have no place in our organisation,” he said. The conference decided that any association member belonging to a commercial coaching organisation was acting unethically if he tutored a student privately without first obtaining the permission of the educational institution at which the student was enrolled. Mr J. D. Murdoch, of Christchurch, was elected president of the association.