Boards warned about pressure
Representatives of secondary school boards were told yesterday to be careful of pressure from teacher organisations on teacher relief cuts and corporal punishment. The president of the Secondarv School Boards’ Association (Mr J. Edwards), told the association’s southern regional conference in Christchurch that principals were servants of boards, not spokesmen for teacher organisations. Boards habitually collaborated with principals, acted on their advice, gave them decision-making powers, and stood by them, but
boards needed to guard their autonomy on decisions on teacher relief and corporal punishment, Mr Edwards said. The decision on corporal punishment in schools should not be made by a Minister of the Crown, Mr Edwards said, because he was certain to be sympathetic to the opinions of certain members of the teaching faculty. The teaching faculty were servants of boards. “My association should not make the decision for boards,” Mr Edwards said. “It is the prerogative of individual boards, and boards only, to shorten school hours, adjust school time, or to decide whether corporal punishment should be abolished.”
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34151, 12 May 1976, Page 22
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