WOMEN SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16723, 5 January 1920, Page 7

WOMEN SCHOOL TEACHERS.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEOUAM.) WELLINGTON, January 3. At tho confcrenco of tho Educational Institute to-day, consideration was giren to the position of women teachers. -Miss E. A Chaplin (Canterbury) introduced a remit: } Tlmt, in any largo school, of Grade 5 and upvrads, tho responsibility of a senior class mistress shall include: (1) special attention to the health, morals and manners of girls; (2) General supervision and teaching of a correlated courso of lessons in eJementarr physiology and hygiene; and (3) Tfie mineral oversight of all matters which specially affect tho welfare 0 f girls: such mistress to have a status and salarv that of an infant mistress The main point made by tho moFcr and by Miss M. .Smith (Canterbury)! who seconded the motion, was that no ono but a woman teacher was able to exert tho steadying infhirnro essential to tho future welfare of girls, and that special subjects could bo taught to girls only by a woman teacher After discission, Mr Garry (FTawke's Kay) moved that ' senior class mistress" be amended to "class mistress." and that, words after "the welfaro of girls" be deleted. ■In this form the motion was earned. |