SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 6

SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS

NO ENTHUSIASM FOR COUNTRY • [~,; ;;.-,■;".:;.work.' ,- ■ •■■■ Referring at yesterday's meeting ."''«! \ the Education Board to the '-. difficulty. ,' of getting teachers- to ,' accept -'transference ■ to. country >,' ; Bchool3 Mr. C. I.Harkness said that he - thought'if the 1 board were to be firm in matter : of transferring much of the ,' s ' difficulty would be overcome. All the V ; firms and Departments transferred the " 'iriembers of their staffs as they, felt dis- :' posed,' and he iii_d not see-why teachers : : should not be given to understand that i' J 'if. they; did not accept a' transfer to a * 'country school it ■__ would stand in the Tvay of fheir promotion. He did. not think .that a teacher should be sen- . tenced to 'a country, school for life, but two .of three years Would do none,of them any harm. The acting-chairman • (Mr. J. P. Shand) said that the position -; was that they received hundreds of ap- . plications for vacancies in city schools, and practically none for * .vacancies in r • the country. Only recently they advertised a positoin at to £27(1 a year, and not one application had been made for _it. In most cases they had to nd- ' -Tertise such vacancies over and> Over '.•'■ again.