THE OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD AND THE GRADED LIST.
TO THE EDiroh. Sra,—ln tho Otago Daily Times of March 22, in. your report -qL the quarterly meeting of the School ComriiitteesV Association, the chairman of the .Otago Education Board is reported as saying, inter alia, that he was "opposed to - appointing on the graded list, but as the law stood they must do it.). . . . As matters stood the name‘of the teacher mest highly graded must be sent on.” I am a certificated teacher on the graded list. In October of' last year I applied for an appointment in a sole charge country school. At its meeting that month the board made no appointment.. It then readvertised the vacancy, and apqinted a teacher -whose name is not on the graded list.,-It appears from the reported words of its chairman' that the Otago Education Board has . deliberately broken the law. I ask an ’ explanation.—l am, etc., E. M.' F. Alathbwson. [Tho chairman of the board states that the board and- the senior inspector agreed that none of the applicants was suitable for the position, and readvertised it.—Eh. O.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18541, 29 April 1922, Page 15
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