WOMEN TEACHERS CONFER

Evening Star, Issue 21719, 14 May 1934, Page 14

WOMEN TEACHERS CONFER

STATUS AND GRADING fPs« United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 12. Grading and other important questions affecting the profession were discussed at , the annual meeting of the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association. The conference reaffirmed the principle that senior women in 2a positions should be placed in the No. 1 grading group. . . , „ Other remits passed were as follow: — That the £3O special allowance previously paid to senior women tea fliers has been unjustly withdrawn,'as it was virtually part of the salary. That the present basis of _ staffing is proving inequitable and unjust in its incidence when schools fall in grade. That, in the interests of the welfare of the children of New Zealand, the clause forbidding the enrolment of a child Ijefore the age of six should be repealed. That in all primary, mixed, intermediate, combined technical and intermediate technical and secondary schools where there are largo numbers of adolescent girls there should be a senior mistress with a salary and status commensurate 1 with the responsibility, in the interests of the girls. That the association press for the restoration of Government grants to all kindergartens controlled by recognised authorities. That the association press for an amendment of the Education Act so that in the reoganisation of educational facilities the status of any teacher might not be detrimentally affected.