TEACHERS5 ANOINTMENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12588, 24 August 1901, Page 2

TEACHERS 5 ANOINTMENTS.

’ TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l think that your , correspondent “The Whaup” goes rather far in his Avhoksal© condemnation of schc:. l ! committee men, although there cannot be much doubt in anyone’s mind about the degrading practice of canvassing. Why do school teachers nob combine and veto the practice among their members/and leave their certificates and references to ©peak for them, for, from personal experience of committeemen, I can attest‘that they have as much repugnance to being canvassed as the teachers have of cauA-assing. “ The M hairp ” to the contrary, I think that the great majority of the’members of School Commit, tees are level-headed men, and though some of them have net the learning Which should make gentlemen, but very often makes asses, they are quite sensible to,- and. pity, the position of the teacher who comes canvassing ; and is it any wonder that they sometimes despise him? “The Whaups definition of a school teacher as a man who “truckles to men he despises (and Avhose boots he. is unworthy to clean in many cases) and flatters foci9, etc., might quite certainly refer to hiros'tL (only possibly bo is so blinded, by ignorance (or learning) and conceit” that he w.d be unable to see the application), but i am quit® certain that the majority of scWooi teachers are held in much letter esteem by School Committees and the public. Truling to see teachers take a broad-minded view of the position; and combine to blot out this degrading method of obtaining a right to earn their bread.—