MISSED THEIR VOCATION.
UNSUITABLE SCHOOL TEACHERS.
PROPORTION NOT LARGE. AUCKLAND, August 15. “ There are teachers in the service, some of them married men with families, who should never have been teachers,” said Mr E. C. Banks at the meeting of the Auckland Education Board to-day. “ They should have been weeded out long ago. They are misfits. The inspectors have not the heart to say they have got to go. Their own careers are a failure and they are spoiling the chances of hundreds of children.”
A memorandum from the Education Department suggested that the board should remind head teachers of the importance of furnishing full reports on probationers and that the principal of the training college should be asked to report promptly when a young student showed unfitness for the profession. Mr A. Burns, chairman of the board, said that the proportion of unsuitable students and probationers was small. There has possibly been a feeling of kindness or leniency on the part of head teachers in the past,” said Mr T. U. Wells. “Careers that do not promise to be satisfactory should be stopped, if possible during the probationary period.” It was decided to issue a circular urging that head teachers should take care in issuing reports on probationers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3884, 21 August 1928, Page 18
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