School staffing
Sir,—Your -readers may be interested in the response from unemployed school teachers to my invitation for them to stage a “work-in” if the primary teachers came out on strike. About a dozen unemployed teachers telephoned me. It seems that primary teachers are trained, employed for two or three years and then sacked. A figure of 400 unemployed primary teachers in Christchurch next year was quoted by a caller. One teacher had gone overseas on a working holiday for 12 months and cannot now get a position because of “broken service.” As a taxpayer I am horrified. Each teacher costs between $60,000 and $BO,OOO to train. Four hundred unemployed teachers represents a total investment of at least $24 million and this is just in Christchurch. What the N.Z.E.I. is doing in calling for increased wages in this situation is totally beyond my comprehension.—Yours, etc RAY SPRING. November 12, 1981.
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