WOMEN TEACHERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18600, 30 December 1920, Page 9

WOMEN TEACHERS.

REMITS , FOR CONFERENCE. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association will be opened at Wellington to-day. The agenda paper contains in all twentyfour remits, covering a wide range of subjects, among the more important being the following:—

i That in-'order to secure a solid foundation for primary education, it is desirable that infant departments of all higher grade primary schools be staffed at least as liberally as would be the case if they were separate schools, and that mis staffing be as in the case of sido schools without prejudice to the stalling of each school as a,whole. — (Auckland.) That staffing similar to that of separate infant schools be provided for the infant departments of mixed schools.— (Wellington.) That this, association reaffirms the principle that the inspectorate should consist of both men and women.—(Canterbury.) Tliat in place of the present inadequate £5 grant for Montessori material, the Department should manufacture such Montessori apparatus as suits New Zealand conditions)* and supply it to all infants schools recommended by the inspectors. —(Wellington.) That in all new infant school buildings. provision should be made for assembly Jialls, separate cloakrooms, staff and lunch rooms, and windows in keeping with modern ideals for infant teach-ing.--(Wellington.) ■ # That ns the right education of the adolescent is the surest way to a strong and tranquil national life, the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association urges the Government to establish as soon as possible continuation classes till the ago of eighteen for young people who leave school at fourteen or fifteen.— (Wellington.) That no child under twelve years of ago he employed in street trading, and no child under fourteen be employed after 7 p.in., or before 8 a.m., and that the hours of work on school days shall not exceed two hours. —(Wellington.) • That this association urges that the preliminary medical examination he of a move searching nature.—(Auckland.) That this association strongly disapproves of the introduction of differentiation in the salaries of young teachers.—(Wellington.) That in preference to the teaching of sex hygiene in primary schools, the Department. he urged to prepare suitable pamphlets for distribution among parents.—(Wellington.) That the Act be amended so that the compulsory retiring age of women teachers be uniform throughout the Dominion.—(Otago.) That women teachers with dependents he granted tjie married allowance of £4o.—(Wellington.) That the principle of limitation of the sizo of classes to forty lie strongly reaffirmed.—(Hawke’s Bay.)