TEACHERS' CLAIMS'

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 25 April 1914, Page 5

TEACHERS' CLAIMS'

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

tJ hclaif °T^° ffi t cial, statement o£ stitute--- Zealand Educational Inthe coming Education Bill is to £iv« Jw«s?l ? thls- year- wiU formtba m-f nf\£ f c T ontl. n»ed efforts on the Sained. 6 In* htute Until tLe * **« In the first class we place— (a) Payment of salaries on a Bysand 6 °e frvi£ dmg °n efficie^ (b) The removal of all power of appointment from the hands of school committees.. (We submit that a system that continues to subject J£w Of itlieir 3 Offn ' and *o the intolerable degradation of the canvassing evil, and that leads to the . making of some 1400 new appoin * demn Sedr BtMMto fielf"°On(c) A substantial increase in salof (EducSior gUration °fa Conßßa We recommend that members of the satisfactory any Bill that does not meet all these demands, and at th» m,e.time that they should decW that m addition to these points they ment°^- Ue *° Strive for the atta^" (a) The co-ordination of all sections of educational work under the Ct n n-i autho"ty—a council that wdl^TevST* toadminister.-. (b) The recognition of the trae place of education as an important part of the civic and social life of the community. Next to the home,, the school is the most important factor m the moulding of the character or the people, and this fact ou^fe** to be recognised in the designing ol educational machinery. During each of the last two sessions ot, -parliament the most important educational questions were, for good ait& sutncient reasons, postponed. Wo am assured that they will be taken in, hand this year, and we would stronrfvimpress upon members of the N.Z E f that they owe it both to the teachineservice and to the country that every effort should be made to secure such. rerorms m our system as will make it worthy of the Dominion and of the> times in which we live.