THE DENTAL CLINIC.

Patea Mail, Volume LI, 11 April 1930, Page 3

THE DENTAL CLINIC.

To the Editor, Sir,—l notice in your last issue iu the report of the School Committee meeting, that strong exception was taken to the absence of the teachers from the public meeting and that the tci£fers should be in charge of the children who are running the shop days for raising money for the dental clinic. Although I am not a teacher, I think •something should be said on their behalf. In the first place the teachers are just ordinary servants, paid by the Government to teach children between certain hours of the day, and when their time, is up they arc like any other person who has completed his day’s toil and is no longer a teacher. The School Committee seem to think that the teachers should ;be on duty looking after the children for 24 hours out of the 24. How would some of the members take it if after the completion of their day’s work they wore told to go and canvass the district for orders just for the fun of doing it? We want to be fair in this matter, and to my mind the responsible parties are the parents and the School Committee, whose pockets the dental clinic will save, and if any of the teachers arc parents of children their duty is to help as not as teachers.—l am, etc., FAIR PLAY.