THE CASE OF THE TEACHERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 73, 31 July 1913, Page 4

THE CASE OF THE TEACHERS.

Who can blame the teachers of the primary schools for their condemnation of the delay in oft-promised reforms, Wellington’s “Evening Post”; asks, and goes on to say: Here is the middle session of Parliament, the session during which a Government hopes to do the principal policy work of the three years, but the Education Minister holds out no hope that the grievances of the State’s teacher will hav eanv attention this year. iNo doubt,

llciv V.tlU » if the decision rested solely with the Hon. James Allen justice would he done, but there are other Ministers with other interests, and Mr Allen him-, self has his time and energy divided, among Education, Defence, and l'in-j ance. He declines to admit that he is overloaded. Perhaps he has not yet felt the strain, because most of his recess was passed in a trip to England, but he will be glad enough to have his burden lightened, if he getsj

his shoulders under all the packs that offer. The Government has hinted plainly that it will be too busy with other affairs to have time for the teachers’ complaints this year. There isj time for things connected with the, hurly-burly of politics and the netting i of shoals of votes, but the teachers, j long known for their meek, mild, and, forgiving' dispositions, must wait. I There is time to remit 3d to Is a week from the taxation of persmis whose incomes exceed £3OO a year, but large numbers of teachers whose salaries are below the wages of some general labourers will have their turn for a favour by and by. There is evidence, however, that they are now making a big effort to make themselves heard and their grievances considered.