GRADING OF TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 8

GRADING OF TEACHERS.

FEW APPEALS LODGED. [BY TELEGBAPE. —OWN COBBESFCNDENT.] •WELLINGTON. Monday. Teachers who are dissatisfied with their position on the Dominion grading list of teachers which now forms the basis of promotion have the right of appeal. Appeals are heard by a board consisting of a chairman, who is not an officer of the department, a representative elected by the teachers and a representative nominated by the department. In the classification of the present year 4621 teachers were graded in the nine .education districts. Statistics of a varied character show that the standard of mark ing in the various districts is uniform as far as can reasonably be expected. The small number of appeals heard shows that the teachero are on the whole satisfied with the fairness of the grading. Of the 4621 teachers graded only 162 lodcfld protests, against tneir grading. Of theso two were informal and 77 were withdraira as the result of extensions by the departnent. Therefore, only 83 appeals had to be heard by the board. This represents 1.8 per cent, of the total number of teachers graded. Of the appeals heard 29 were allowed and the teacher's positky.i on the grading list wsb in each case improved. The remaining 53 were disallowed.