TEACHERS AND POLITICS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 7

TEACHERS AND POLITICS

A DUNEDIN RESOLUTION. “BREACHES OF TRUST.”By Telegraph—Press Association. Ounedln, Dec. 10. The High Schools Board passed the following resolution, the Hon. D. T. Fleming alone opposing it: “The Board expresses its conviction that, as the schools have been established and maintained for the education of children in the Dominion irrespective of the political opinions and convictions of the children’s parents, those placed in charge of children in the schools should be deba-red absolutely from active participation in political matters and from the expression of political opinions in the schools, in the press and at public meetings, and such participation or expression of opinions on the part of any member of the staff of any school under its control is regarded by the Board as a flagrant breach of trust The Board regrets that there exists no means of dealing satisfactorily with such breaches of trust and respectfully requests the Minister to take into consideration the desirability of providing such a means by legislation or regulation.” The matter arose from the activities of the principal of a girls’ school, Miss King, advocating the Douglas credit scheme.