ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN TEACHERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1901, Page 7

ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN TEACHERS.

Representatives of city and country schools attended the meeting of the newly-formed Wellington Association of Womeu^Teachers held on Saturday afternoon. The rules drafted by the committee set up for that purpose were adopted. Among the correspondence read was an interesting letter dealing with the status of women teachers in New South Wales. It was unanimously decided that a peititon be presented to Parliament setting forth that 60 per cent, of the primary school teachers of New Zealand are women ; that these are engaged either as sole teachers, as infant teachers, or as teachers of standard classes ; that for these three classes of teachers there should be two avenues of promotion, leading, in the one case, to the charge of an infant department, in the other to the charge of a girls' school or girls' department ; that if effect be given to the recommendation of the Commissioners that girls' schools and girls' departments be not recognised, all hope of a career will be taken from the women engaged in standard work; that in view of the introduction of the new manual work, there is danger in mixed schools of the interests of the girls being subordinated to those of the boys ; that it is desirable that the girls of the upper standards should be brought under the influence of the best women in the profession; that parents evidently desire this, as proved by t ne support given to private girls' schools, and to girls' high schools, n these grounds Parliament is asked to take such steps as will lead to the retention of the g'rrls' schools and departments where already established, and to the establishment of others wherever practicable,