Teachers ‘not the only jobless’
PA Auckland Teachers must stop thinking of themselves as a privileged. protected class of labour, says the chairman of the Auckland Young Nationals. Mr Mark Lowndes. Teachers were not the only members of the public being hit by unemployment, and they should not expect special attention from the Government, he said. The fact that school rolls had fallen from 525,000 to 486.000 since 1975 had to be faced. “It is not the Government's task to manufacture babies to fill the' rolls. Nor can the Government be expected to wave its fiscal wand to create jobs that simply do not exist," he said. Mr Lowndes said that teachers should use their own initiative to find work — they should start their own businesses doing remedial teaching.
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Press, 27 January 1983, Page 9
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