GRADING OF TEACHERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 9

GRADING OF TEACHERS

BIENNIAL SYSTEM PROTEST TO BOARD Stating that their faith in the Department of Education had been shaken by its total disregard of the wishes of the teachers in connection with biennial grading and also by the autocratic mannner in which the scheme had been thrust upon them, the Hastings branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute communicated with the Hawke’s Bay Education Board on the subject at its meeting in Napier en Friday and received sympathetic support. The letter added that the or an eh viewed with dismay the fact that the scheme for biennial grading had been put into operation without the requisite machinery being provided for the avoidance of anomalies and injustices, which it is feared will arise. “The department’s aim of Establishing a proper, genuine friendliness between inspectors and teachers, and for the inspectors to gain a real firsthand knowledge of local conditions and circumstances under which the teachers work, could be better realised if the inspectorate were decentralised and an inspector were stationed in one particular sub-area for not less than three years,” the letter added. The board, on the motion of the chairman, Mr. G. A. Maddison, is to enter an emphatic protest to the department and at the same time ask if the operation of the system could j be postponed until such time as a | conference of interested organisations i could be held.