TEACHERS UP IN ARMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 4

TEACHERS UP IN ARMS.

OVER A CITY APPOINTMENT. Considerable dissatisfaction .prevails in tonal teaching circles aver the reported proposal of tho Education Board to anijitgamate tho To Aro School and the Mitcuclltqn'ii School, and confer tho Ticadinasterslrip of the combined schools upon the present headmaster of Mitehelltwii School. Tin's dissatisfaction, it was explained by several teachers who were approached yesterday, is not based upon personal grounds, but upon a matter of principle. It is pointed out that the teacher in question, if promoted from a school of tho status of MitehelltoWH to such -an important appointment as will be the hcadmastership of the proposed school, wilt impose a grievous injustice upon a number of teachers whoso right to preferment is acknowledged to be superior to that, of .tho board's rumoured appointee. One teacher with whom the 'question was discussed remarked that if tho board actually made such an appointment it would he "a disgrace," Tho question of amalgamation of tho schools Ims been considered by tho residents of Mitclielltowii for saine 1 time past, and indignation meetings against the Amalgamation havo been held. It is uwderstoedj'.howßveir, m\ reliable authority; that the householders of MitchclKown, while strongly in opposition to the question of amalgamation, havo laid it down that if .the. ftiunlgattrntion ■ takes place, the beadftiaster of Mitchelltown shnll bo i>laccd in charge of the' combined school. To this, it is understood the board has assented. Tho main objection of the teachers, however, is to tho board proposing to confer such an important appointment without advertising that is to Say, open competition.