Teachers’ place in society
Sir, —When are secondary school teachers going to realise that they are no longer a wellregarded section of society in New Zealand? For this, they have only themselves to blame, in that they have gone along for years with a School Certificate examination system in which large numbers of candidates were doomed to fail despite their best efforts. This naturally produces a large body of resentment and distrust of those who claim to be teachers. The amount of vandalism directed against school buildings again shows that there is a considerable reservoir
of hositility towards our present educational institutions. The truth is that our teachers have allowed themselves to become rather inefficient bureaucrats. When good, teachers are recognised as such; when inspectors and principals are not simply “refugees from the classroom,” when realistic levels of achievement are substituted for our present School Certificate system and when less time is wasted in schools, then perhaps teachers will be more respected? — Yours, etc.,
MARTIN POTTER. February 10, 1986.
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Press, 11 February 1986, Page 20
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