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SICK LEAVE.

nITCATION DEPARTMENT'S # UCA FIGURES.

... .OSOCiATION TELEGRAM |fS£S»

VEVLttGTOX. November 35. * • Boards have been supfc'f fa table of graphs and a reby t particulars concerning the ri»S 0 j ink leave granted teachers Zr*l n \l"rSd May, 1930. Contle"ten^:di . **«»;?,1 number of teachers m all T he .*,t the end of last year was ; riC n is shown that 23.4 per.cent. «*L ' Sere on sick leave dining of *"• while 6.3 per cent, wore on fie" 41 - Th« Department [joints that the oat >B a ° leave of absence in more are counted separately tWOM man" . e ot . curret i. ***,?£ that a teacher who had might be " one week 'or •* £, included. In view of this makes it c ear that tf ' »ntaees g ven should not tit * showtng the P .-rce.,t« no .<- »*? in aV particular district or special leave. The * h ° Mes are to bo used only as a stages varying amounts several districts bas"s Wellington, with /!'(, i °lrJ had the highest percentages I ieSt vt leave dnrin- the year, namely CB f C Whland. with 37G teachers *L nS with 32.4 per cent,, and «"*,"*. with 1040 teachers, had A** 1 * V«it Particulars for other 309 "Sm Board Districts are:J*"* 1 ™! 51* teachers. 27.1 per WW otago 630. 2fi.r per cent.; Kit.. " l "'> A-o og .-, per cent.; Math, a**. - ■ ccnt _. 16.6. . W TM EDITOR OF THE PStSI. . sir-Will vou grant mc space to common the figures published in con.oiim with the above, and to traverse yOj some of the remarks made thereI have been privileged to peruse •Is. tables of figures submitted by the | Moettioß Department; they are clearly it out their import is plain, and it is «rr regrettable that such apparent misewtrnction should have been placed °\o take Canterbury first: the perrtaUge on leave is given as 32.1 per tat This would make it appear that, a the course of about *hreo years, practically 100 per cent, of our teachers mold have been on leave of some sort, , deduction very wido of the mark. The Department's 32.1 per cent, is compiled sTspecial way, for a special purpose; !3 d a special footnote to the table rives warning against misinterpretation d the figures. The footnote reads' thus: "Teachers on leave of absence in more than one month are counted separately in each month that such leave occurred. Consequently the percentages given in the last two columns (Canterbury 23.9 sick leave, 8.4 special) are not to be read as showing the percentage of teachers in any particular district that had sick or special leave." Yet, apparently, the figures have been to read, so misconstrued, and bo published. The real position is not so "extraordinary" as. some would make it appear. In Canterbury, as in nearly every district, July is the peak month for leave, December is the lowest. The '"lgures for Canterbury are as follows — ' *lqaote only two months: — On P.C. '%. • sick Special on .fljak. l Teachers, leave, leave, leave. JHpIOMINION FIGUKES. J(H«IjL sick Special on leave, leave, leave. lilljp 6438 299 32 5.1 -IMf" 6438 IC6 36 3.1 .JHgpgares mean this. That in CanJHHrenoatb. by month, one teacher in jSHnHJirty-six is on leave of some sort amlfek or more; in the Dominion, «KBpfjiirty-three. There is nothing jWpirly alarming in the position. If JBHSipith thirty-six employees had, on HMMge, one of its hands absent for mKn'more each month I doubt if nNpMition would justify panic ;lppjU on the part of the board of 0» »ord as to finance, and that is tilt the Department is concerned with, iaember of the local Board stated fct teachers on special leave receive ' )919 to one month. This is not so. A fcKfer on special leave for, say, one ■Mtk, loses not only that month's pay, 1 W tin one-fifth of another month's W- Again, an actual saving is some- '■■ effected by employing relieving ! «»tterj, at a lower salary, in place of j*» whose sick leave time-allowance « expired. /»a very regrettable, as 1 said be™f, that utterly wrong impressions * *j™ aire been formed and spread *WM,_and that a gentleman holding a gamble pnblic position should go •»ras to say: "This Board is cn*mgssg th en , by giving leave where •a not warranted." I wonder whether had even cursorily "■"»* d the figures before attempting to "WW them.—Yorfrs, etc., .... H. F. PENLINGTON. '***«*% New Zealand Educational y Institute. A weal er 25th, 1930.

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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 26 November 1930, Page 13

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SICK LEAVE. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 26 November 1930, Page 13

SICK LEAVE. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 26 November 1930, Page 13

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