TEACHERS’ PROMOTION

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 10

TEACHERS’ PROMOTION

Chairman of Education Board Explains A “CRUDE” RESOLUTION Describing as crude the Wellington School Committee and Education Federation’s remit dealing with promotion without transfer, which came before the meetings on Monday night, Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, said it was one of those proposals which were put forward without any thought. While on the face of it there was a semblance of justice in the proposal, it would not stand up to any test, and was opposed to the principles of the national education system, which gave a teacher the free right to apply for any position in a school from Whangarei to the Bluff. “Take it the other way about.” continued Mr. Forsyth. “If there are some very good schools, popular with teachers, does anyone think the teachers are going to get out just to allow the juniors to obtain promotion? No fear, they will not move, being too comfortable, so that those who are looking for promotion in their own school only might have to wait many years. Meanwhile, others are forging ahead through the system of transfers, which make.-j all vacancies open to teachers capable of filling them. Ferhap-s the system 's wrong, but it Is no use trying to wreck a system unless you have something better with which to replace it. On the whole, it has served the community- very well. I don’t think the teachers want any change in it.” Mr. Forsyth also said that changes in teaching staffs were not so frequent as they were since the new two-year restriction came into force.