TEACHERS AT INQUIRIES.
* EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ASKS REPRESENTATION. DECLINED BY~THE BOARD. At to-day's meeting of the Education Board a letter was read in which the Educational Institute asked the Board to allow at least one representative of the Institute at all inquiries held by the Board which may affect the future status of any teacher in the Board's service.
Mr Israel : The thin end of the wedge. The Secretary (Mr Pryde) remarked that a similar request had been on a previous occasion declined.
The, Rev. Mr Fraser said he did not think the request should be granted in , the form in which it was puu He would move —" That the Institute be informed j that the practice of the Board has been | in all cases of inquiry regarding the conI duct of schools to allow the teacher to have ] present, if ho so desired, a person to aTJ | him. though without allowing any ordi- | nary counsel, and that the Board are will- , iug to allow a representative of the Insti- ' tute or any teacher in the service selected j by him to be present if the request is j made to the Board by the teacher whose I conduct is under inquiry; but the Board j cannot accede to the request of the Instij tute to permit a representative to be | present in all cases where the future sta- ! tus uf a teacher is affected." The mover i said that the Board had for years past j acted in the most liberal way with teach- ! ers in the case of an inquiry. So far as i lie knew, they had never conducted an in- ! quir? in which the teacher was not satis- ; tied with the conduct of it. Whether the j result of the inquiry was satisfactory to j him was another thing. That was not what inquiries were conducted for. This i request certainly did not arise from any | feeling that the Hoard had not given the teachers fair play. j Mr .Mitchell seconded the motion, and ! made the point that the Institute did not | embrace the whole of the teachers, and j this was an endeavor to interfere in mat- ; ters which might not concern members of j the Institute. The Chairman remarked that the Board were not the. final court of appeal. A | teacher could always appeal. But in order I to fa-ilitate harmony he thought that the ! corn-re proposed by Mr Fraser was a w'se ! one. I The motion was carried. |
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Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 6
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