TEACHERS' SALARIES
i NO FLAT RATE INCREASES The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) stated on Saturday that he could not agree with the suggestion uf some teachers that the proposed increase oT teachers' salaries should be calculated on a flat rate system throughout the profession. He was convinced that the great bulk of tho teachers were opposed to the flat rate. In tho other branches of the Public Service had been classified, and placed in positions according fn their efficiency, and a flat rate of increase on account of the cost of living affected all alike. But in tho teaching profession it was quite clear from the returns before him that a large number of the teachers in New Zealand occup'ed /TUiiicli higher positions than their efficiency entitled them to, as compared with teachers who held lower places. A typical case in point would be three teachers—"A," "B," "C,." They were, equally efficient as graded by tho inspector, but "A" occupied a position with a salary of ,£2OO. "B" one with' JJBOO. and "C" one with .WOO. The salary of "B" would be a normal amount, judging from the sum paid to teachers ; .n the same category, "A" would, therefore, be underpaid and "C" overpaid. A Hat rate if increase would, consequently, be unfair.
The existing- anomalies, said the Minister, were due to tlie fact that different boards appointed teachers on different systems, and not always on the score, of efficiency Last year increases in salary had been made on the has!* of efficiency, and the Educational Institute had expressed a desire that the same method should be adopted this j-ear.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 294, 6 September 1920, Page 4
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273TEACHERS' SALARIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 294, 6 September 1920, Page 4
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