Principle in Fixing Teachers' Salaries.
In the discussion on ' Unnecessary Schools,' which took place at the recent meeting of the Educational Conference, the Rev. R. Coates stated that 'it was easier to manage a Bchool of 100 than a sohool of 50 of attendance.' That is exactly what we have always maintained ; and no truthful or intelligent person can maintain the contrary. Why, then, should tbe head teacher of a school of 100 be more highly paid than the head teacher of a school of 50 of attendance, other things being equal? There is no just reason for the inequality. The ' just ' Auckland Education Board, however, in the interest of • friends ' utterly ignores that common sense principle in fixing the salaries of Mr IJpton's ♦ dear higher teachers who are not underpaid,' and pretends to regulate them upon a sort of rule of thumb, of numbers, but in reality upon nothing of the kindthe real rule being favouritism made easy. The rank of the teacher, the character of his work, the length of his service, are treated by that Board as simply non-existent, and are never considered. (Continued on page 9.)
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 604, 31 January 1891, Page 7
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