TEACHERS AND THEIR FOIBLES
EDUCATION BOARD’S DISCUSSION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 26. Schoolmasters and their foibles came in for som e criticism at today’s meeting of ths Education Board. “We can’t go and take the Ministers by the throat to give us what we want,” remarked Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P. "We have to go cap in hand, and take what we can get. If we cannot get a whole loaf, then we must take half a loaf, or as much as we can get.” In the course of his Mr. Wright said that schoolmasters did not always know what they wanted. They all differed. “They are like parsons,” he remarked- “ When-you get a new minister he wants the choir put here. When the next man comes he wants it somewhere else. Schoolmasters are just the same."
The Board was later informed that there were more teachers offering than there were positions for in the city, while tho Board had great difficulty in getting teachers for the country. There were (still many country schools with uncertiflcated teachers and qualified teachers could not be got to go to the country. Mr. W. T. Grundy said that many teachers never had any experience at smaller schools. It would do a lot of teachers good to go out and take on the responsibilities of sole teacher at a school for a time-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18975, 28 March 1924, Page 9
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