TEACHERS' SALARIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1914, Page 2

TEACHERS' SALARIES

io tub RPiToit. Sir,— Will you kindly allow mo to endorse the remarks made by "Dissatisfied" in your last Friday's issue. "Dis* ' satisfied" has correctly stated the case, sir, and there is little for me to do but reiterate what Jig hajj tsflkl. Thon^aro 125 headmasters in grade- v. schools. Wo all got there by promotion from grade iv. Now, as a reward for our efficiency in climbing out of grade iv., w© arc to be disrated a-nd set back where we started. Out positions,' >ir, are equal in difficulty and responsibility to grade vi., tand if we arc not to stand as a separate grade wo should have been promoted to vi. rather tha; set back with iv. (I refer to old gradt of course). Now, eir, I beg to pom out this if the" Bill parsfees unainendo in this direction, there will be at anyrale one headmaster less, and I know many others who will follow It is all very well to talk about wanting good men for ,1 eachers, but such glaring injustices as them will drive out what few men are in it. We coneidot our positions are equal to the bebt assistantships and are worth (£260 to £300) as offered new grade iv. We are not ashamed of tho salary we are asking. We have all had at least 18 or 20 years' twoperionce, and that means ten years of patient study. We havo only a few •••emote chances of getting into a higher grade, and we vant a salary on vSick we can support a wife and family in respectability. The local factory manager in my township gets £240 per annum, free house, wood, bwtteJ 1 , and milk—^asily equal to £300, but then, he makes "butter" while I (inly try to mako "men' and "women." I maystate he has- one assistant, I havo two. Of coiiT&e we are hopeful that, those in chnTge of the Bill will see tho injustice of our position and will use their best efforts to have us included in new grade ! iv. — I am, etc.. "ANOTHER DISSATISFIED." P.S.-^By calling grade "iv. and v.," grade "Hi." and iii.a" has the. Minister reduced th© number of grades? 3rd Augti&t, 1914.