TEACHERS AND THE CADET MOVEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 5

TEACHERS AND THE CADET MOVEMENT.

[Br Tblegkaph.— Special to The Post.] A PROTEST. AUCKLAND, This Day. The letter written by the Auckland branch of the NeAv Zealand Educational Institute and forwarded to tho Board of Education regarding the school cadets encampment, was as follows-.— "l have tho honour by direction of the managing committee earnestly and respectfully to ask your board to withdraw the circular of the 19th inst. with regard to the encampment of public school cadets. The managing committee rc-spect fully submits that a teacher's time' outside of school hours is at his own disposal, and that tho board has no right to demand from a teacher the performance of any duty during such time. The teachers feel that the assumption of the board's right to compel attendance at tho camp is a serious infringement of the teachers' liberty. It is unnecessary in this letter to urge upon the board the objections bTeld by the great majority of tsachers to encampments, these, as agreed to by a combined meeting of cadet officers and headmasters, having been already forwarded to you, institute begs to remind the board that the zealous efforts of the cadet officers in the past undoi a voluntary system havo been responsible for the great success of the movement. If this voluntary effort is replaced by compulsory service this institute has every cause to fear that the work will be done without that enthusiasm so necessary to success."