INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21482, 4 May 1933, Page 10

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS

EFFECT OF REGULATIONS COMPLAINTS ABOUT STAFFING Advice that the Education Department was not prepared to give education boards discretionary powers to depart from the proportionate number of men and women assistants specified for intermediate schools \yas received by the Auckland Education Board at a meeting yesterday. Tho department stated the matter would bo further considered when the necessity arose, but at prpsent it was not intended to interfere with existing proportions except when voluntary resignations .took effect. Protests against tho effect of tho new regulations regarding staffing were received from the Matamata school committee and Chamber of Commerce" and from the Kowhai and Waihi school committees. "The proportion specified is one male teacher to three women, even though half the pupils at these schools arc boys," said the chairman, Mr. T. U. "Wells. "1 think we should restate these cases to the department." The board decided to approach the department again.

PROTEST FROM WHANGAREI "A GLARING DISCREPANCY" A protest against the "glaring discrepancy between the status of tuition in Standard IV. of tho primary schools and that of the intermediate schools in tho Whangarci district" was received by the Auckland Education Board at a meeting yesterday from tho Horahora school committee. The committee stated tho present position was detrimental to pupils. Progress on moving to intermediate schools was retrograde, as was shown by the grading of staffs at tho two types of school. It was impossible for the children to make the progress required to obtain the proficiency certificate and the committee asked that the anomaly should be rectified. "I do not know why tho intermediate divisions are not popular with teachers at Whnngarei," said the chairman, Mr. T. U. Wells. Mr. C. R. Munro said there were many good teachers at tho primary schools in the district who had made their homes at Whangaroi and had continued to remain there year after year. Many outside teachers did not wish to go to the district to take the other positions offering, as they considered it was too far from' the main centres. The letter was received.