WELLINGTON TEACHERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 8

WELLINGTON TEACHERS

MANY MARRIED WOMEN NUMBERS OF STUDENTS WITH NO POSITIONS. (Per Press Association.' WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. A report furnished to the Wellington Education Board to-day showed the number of married women teachers employed by the board to be 57. Mr Clark moved that a sub-commit-tee bo set up to consider each case individually and report to the full board. Air London immediately rose and declared his unequivocal objection. “There is,” he said, “some ulterior motive behind the motion.’’ Their duty as a board was to make appointments from those best qualified to serve as teachers, not to inquire into tho social status and domestic life of teachers. The chairman (Air Forsyth) said the board could not take any action against married teachers. If it thought fit it could make recommendations that the regulations should be altered with regard to the future appointments of married teachers. In the course of the discussion information was given that, as far as the inspectors were concerned, in most cases married women made better teachers than young girls. They were more experienced in the proper handling of children. Mr Clark said he did not want the hoard to dismiss its married teachers even if it had the power, which it had not. What he wanted was an investigation. There were upwards of 60 teachers out of the college with no positions to fill. Tfie motion that the list of married teachers should be reported upon to the board by a sub-committee was carries by six to four.