SCHOOL GRADING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 232, 30 August 1938, Page 9

SCHOOL GRADING.

MINISTER’S ANNOUNCEMENT. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Aug. 29. The announcement that it would lie necessary to regrade all public schools, Native schools, and intermediate schools and departments on October 1 in connection with the new salary scheme for primary school teachers was made by the Minister of Education Hon. P. Fraser), in an interview today. In the ordinary course primary and Native schools would have been regraded on February 1, 1939, on the average number of pupils on the roll during the four weeks ending September 30, 1938. The Minister wished, however, ,to avoid, as far as possible, two gradings of schools within six months, and had decided that, except for intermediate schools, and the intermediate departments and secondary departments of district high schools, the grading determined for October 1 should remain in force till January 31, 1940. The Minister said he had decided that, for the period just mentioned, the primary departments of public schools and Native schools should be graded on the number of pupils on the roll on September 16, 1938. If any school was temporarily closed on September 16 because of an epidemic among the pupils or for any other cause, that school would be graded an the number of pupils on the roll on the last day it was open. Provision would be made for the grade to be adjusted in cases where it could be shown that hardship would result from taking fhe roll number on the last day the school was open. Intermediate schools and the intermediate departments and secondary departments of districts high schools, however, would be graded on October 1 on the roll number on March 1, 1938, and again in 1939 on the roll number on March 1, 1939. This would ensure their being staffed on the maximum attendance.