TEACHERS' APPEAL BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17212, 14 July 1919, Page 6

TEACHERS' APPEAL BOARD.

FRUITS OF LATE LAW CASE. RIGHT? SAFEGUARDED. Tup Teacher?" Roard of Appeal eon-r''H,-v) it* Auckland sittings on Saturday. \\nf>sr*. J. W. Poynton. S.M.. and .1. <'-! ij^'hley, D r >'n ; riK'ri members of the board, v. '] now proge-od to Napier to deal with Han ke s Bay rape?. Early in the Auckland sitting it was an.i.'n'j'd that effect is in due course to he t'ven hv the Education Department to the rernt judgment of the Supreme Court in the »p .if Mr. G. Jaffrey, of Matigere, and of the other 48 Auckland teachers who h-id iff ii-ted tie adjustment of A'l'k-ii-d disln I grading?, to »■•>«• Southern (•'Jtndaid, bv levering to tho*« tea.< hers, t-- 4 r jj.=> the 1018 grading list is con.ert;ed, the two roarkt which they lost under the adjustment. The new grading foe 1919, however. against which the r iss of appeals just dealt with were, directed, had been made before, that, juripp rut trap given, and in it many of the tochers half rej-ained one or both of the lo«t mark?, which were under the heading <> skill in teaching and discipline. Where th:« it •■' done th* Hoard of Appeal has i-m' reoommended their restoration. >~,. it has been i-lca.-'y intimated an,J. ; v I si--rW that the retent. ri of the reduced marking doe.'. r.'.t. imply anv falling-off in the teachers raoabilitv. mid that this fact will be made dear for all time by means of a : penal nienv.rat dum upon the cla«sin>ai;..n -ird* kept n respect of each of them >•- the Department.