TEACHERS FOR BOYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20882, 26 May 1931, Page 9

TEACHERS FOR BOYS.

PROTEST AGAINST WOMEN. DISCUSSION IN ENGLAND. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON. April 10. Further attacks on the policy of placing women in charge of boys' classes in schools were made at the conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters at Birmingham.

The conference passed a resolution reaffirming the association's policy that all boys above infant age should be taught by men, demanding that in all boys schools i men teachers only should be appointed, that each mixed department should be under the charge of a headmaster, and that the staff should include as many male assistants as would ensure that the boys would come under the predominating influence of men. Mr. F. A. Gibbs, London, in moving the resolution, said: "We insist that girls' departments shall be wholly staffed by women, and we also insist that boys'departments shall be staffed by men.'Men, ho said, except for a negligible minority, would not accept service under women. It was equally true that the majority of women preferred a man as head.

Mr. 11. Meigh, London, said they did not wish to say anything derogatory of women in their profession. 'We admire them in their own sphere teaching infants and girls."

Mr. D. Freeborough, London, moved » resolution urging local education authorities to take advantage of the extra supply of qualified men teachers to fill all vacancies in boys' departments with men.