COUNTRY SCHOOLS
(Tlie tho Editor.) Sir, —In reply to “Advance” I would like, once and for all, to lay this bogey of “9 to 8” as a teacher’s hours. There may bo some few who work only the hare minimum, just as there are slackers in every walk of life, hut I would ask “Advance” not to judge a profession always eager to advance and give the children of their best by the one slacker he is evidently unlucky enough to have met. i. have had an intimate connection with teachers all my life and presume to know something of their ways. Most of them go to school soon after eight to put up work, etc., and seldom leave before 4 p.m. Their evenings are almost always engaged with preparing work, marking, making equipment, or filling in records of some kind. Especially is this the case of the country school teacher who shoulders the whole responsibility of teaching and organisation fo'r ten classes himself.—l am etc., TEACHER’S WIFE.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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168COUNTRY SCHOOLS Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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