CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 31 October 1910, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE EDUCATION ACT. (To the Editor.) Sir, — In reading the columns of your valuable paper I cannot let such remarks as "Subscriber" and Mr Pearce have made re lady teachers pass without saying something in their defence. My own and many others' experience has been and is that where lady teachers have been placed in charge of either a country or a town school their results and work have been in every way superior to that of any male teacher. As regards discipline, reports and experience both prove that the lady teachers are again equally capable of maintaining order, and I will even go further and say that in some cases there is a better and more refined tone in a school in charge of a lady teacher. Of course, if a mere inexperienced'girl is placed in the position of sole teacher in a country school where there may be one or two unruly T>ig boys then one cannot expect discipline and order, any more than one could from a | )oy of the same age placed in the same position.-! am, etc., a

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