TEACHERS’ APPOINTMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 3

TEACHERS’ APPOINTMENTS

RIGHTS OF COMMITTEES MANY!A!’AHA QUEfcTTOX Whether or not a school committee has the final choice of a teacher recommended for its school was debated at a meeting of members of school committees <>t the five Gisborne schools last night, when the chairman of the Hawkes Hay Education Hoard. Mr. 'll. A. Maddison, and the Director of Education. .Mr. N. T. 1/ambouriic, were present. Mr. C. W. l/.od, Maugapapa, stated that names' of nv# applicants were submitted to the Maugapapa committee recent lv. and the committee did not agree with the person the hoard had chosen, asking that the next on the list should he offered the position. The board had ignored' the committee, and Mr. l/.od asked what the rights ol a school committee were in such matters, and ii a, committee had no rights why did the board submit the names ol applicants to the committee.

Mr. Maddisoo replied that flic board was gt' t rin d by the Act. which ruled that, 'the highest graded applicant must secure the position, unless there were extraneous circumstances which warranted a reverse decision, in which case the highest graded applicant, bad the right, of appeal. The. submission of the names to the committee was purely a. matter of form, in accordance with tlm ruling of tli(> Ait.

Mr. d. S. Waneliop. a member of Ihr board: You might explain that the rnm iiiitlec has as much sav in it as, we do.