MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 10

MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS

MINISTER'S STATEMENT

NO DISMISSALS OF BREAD WINNERS

In an article which appeared in “The Press” last- week the question was raised whether the appeal of a married woman teacher against her dismissal l>y an Education Board might not be sustained by the Court of Appeal as constituted in Part XL of the Education Act. “I think the whole matter is pretty well safeguarded by the clause in the Finance Act which holds that the dismissal of a teacher must bo made with the consent ami approval of the Senior Inspector, who is an oflicer of the Department,” said the Minister for Education (the Hon. 11. Atinore) when this question was referred to him by the •'Press” at Christchurch.

BOARDS IN AGREEMENT

”1 find that almost all the Boards are in agreement that in cases where the dismissal could be made without imposing any hardship on the teacncr and an appointment could be made not detrimental to the children, then the married women teachers should be replaced. Where the woman is the breadwinner of her family, of course, too legislation does not apply.” "There were so many teachers unem ployed, he added, that there should be no "difficulty in making a selection to lill the vacancy both as suitable and as efficient. During the meeting of Idle Recess Committee there had even been some discussion on the advisability of allowing latitude, in the form of a certain number of 'grading marks, in the replacement of the married w-meu.