PAYMENT OP TEACHERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13857, 21 March 1907, Page 7

PAYMENT OP TEACHERS.

average attendance basis CONDEMNED. (Pj# United Phi as Absocmtioit.) AUCKLAND, March 20. At a meeting of the Board of Education fo-day tho old question of the payment of teachers' salaries oil the basis of tho averago af.tcnda.ncc camo up again for discussion, being brought nnder notico by a from the Assistant Masters' Association, in which the association took exception to a statehient made by a' member of tho board that teachers preferred outsiders to be appointed to tho position of inspectors. Ino association considered that malter3 relating to tho promotion and payment of teachers were very unsatisfactory, and requested tho hoard, to tiso its influence to obtain tho abolition of payment by attendance. Tile Chairman (MrL. J. Bagnall) remarked that with regard ,ot .promotion and payment the department had inado a great improvement on tho former state of affairs. air Ureenslade, The basis ie absolutely wrong. Tho Chairman: Tho department, is, I think, prepared to adopt a better system if one could be found. Mr Grcenslado: It is a disgraceful thing that tho salaries depend on tho average attendance instead of on (lie service and tho ability or the teachers. Mr C. Parr said it was tho first, duty of tho Minister of Education to evolve a. ■system. _ The present system cauecd a very groat injustico to tho teachers. Jn some oases, through no credit due to the teachers, the average attendnnco had gone away up. Perhaps a district was developing rapidiv, and perhaps teachers' salaries rose froiii £250 a year to £400 a year, whoreae if it had been a £400 appointment in the first place tho board would have been able to appoint a. teacher with tatter qualifications. Mr J. Stallworlliy, M.H.U., moved— "Tlmt the Assistant Masters' Association's resolution bo eenf. lo the Minister, and that liis attention he called to the anomalies." This was carried.