APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6986, 13 February 1894, Page 2

APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

The Kilbirnie School Committee have resigned because they contend that the Wellington Education Board had not acted fairly in the selection of a master, and that they had not selected the best candidate in their employ. An attempt has been made to show that the Hawke's Bay Education Board has always aimed at decreasing the powers of school committees, but it is altogether wrong to place the local board in the same position as that at Wellington in regard to the selection of teachers. And for this reason. The Wellington Board only sends the name of one teacher to a school committee, and if the committee decline to recommend for appointment, the Board appoints all the same. But here an entirely different system is in vogue, as the Board sends to the committees the names of all eligible teachers who have applied for a vacancy, as many as from two to nine names in some cases having been sent. The Hawke's Bay Education Board places no restriction in the way of school committees selecting any teacher they may choose to recommend, though the experience even of school committees proves that it is a very unwise course indeed to send to the committees, the names of, those vrilo apply." Our leads us to believe that instead of arrogating to itself school committees' duties, the Education' Board here prefers to give committees every opportunity of showing that they are useful bodies.