PARENTS COMPLAIN
CHANGING OF TEACHERS LOSS OF CONTINUITY (By Telegraph.) ' (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Many parents of primary school children in Dunedin are perturbed at "the number of changes taking place among members of the teaching staffs. It is maintained that there is more than one instance •of a class or standard having as many as three or four teachers during the year. This, it is considered, is not in the best interests of the pupils for the operation of any system which permits such freedom of increment means that the children are making several fresh ! starts within a comparatively short period, the consequence being that their progress is hindered.
The chairman of a school committee expressed the opinion that the grading system had something to do with the changes. Under this system it was necessary for a teacher who,wished to obtain promotion to leave his or her own school and become attached to the staff of another. This was not altogether a new problem, for ten years ago he knew of one standard which had four teachers in the same year. The position was accentuated by a shortage of teachers in'the North Island.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 21
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