BONDS FOR TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 12

BONDS FOR TEACHERS.

OBLIGATION ON STUDENTS. " ONE-SIDED " ARRANGEMENT. The nature of the bond executed by parents or guardians of students entering training colleges was criticised at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday, it being pointed out that the teacher who could not obtain employment suffered a hardship. In regard to the bond it is at present provided that after attending training college a student "shall immediately thereafter servo as a teacher for five years in the case of a male student and three years in the case of a female student." Mr. T. U. Wells suggested that the students should merely be required to be available for five or three years and if not obtaining employment in that time the bond should lapse. Mr. J. Boddie said it was absolutely unfair that a-, teacher should be required to givo service whether.or not he was able to obtain employment. Mr. Burns agreed that the teacher was under a disadvantage. A teacher coming out of college under bond, he said, could not take dther employment even if no teaching employment could be supplied. "The bond is all one-sided.," said Mr. H. S. W. King. "It would be different if the teachers had legal advice in drawing up the bond." •Mr. E. C. Banks suggested that the hoard should go further in the matter. Ho moved that if the board was not able to provide a teacher with work within 12 months the bond should lapse. This course was adopted for recommendation to the Education Department.