EDUCATION AND PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 80, 1 October 1931, Page 12

EDUCATION AND PROGRESS

(To the Editor.) Sir,— "Taxpayer," in your issue ot the 30th September, is further from the truth than before, if that' were possible, and instead of what he said being ' quite true," it is just tho exact diametrical opposite. The truth is that a teacher, like any other employee, may be dismissed for any good reason by the usual process of three months' notice. The case of Miss A. was different. The board did not dismiss her, as it had a perfect right to do under the circumstances, but it "suspended" her. Suspension, in the Educatic Act, is reserved for cases of 'immorality or gross misbehaviour' —some allegation that, renders the subject unfit to be allowed to stay in the school. Thus f most' outrageous stigma was, cast on Miss A., and the board, as soon as it was madp aware of the consequence of its hasty action, annulled the suspension. There was never any mention of the Supreme' Court in connection with the case. Sir, there is a serious side to this matter. "Taxpayer," an anonymous slanderer, is obviously endeavouring to establishin the p-.blic mind a feeling oE 'antagonism to education: Your readers will therefore b>3 üblc to appraise his waitings at their true worth. They will bo.wise also if they take these writings as a warning that the enemies of education are working by underground methods' towards an, assault on the educational position of the Dominion. It will be well for all who take an intelligent interest in the welfare of this nation to rally to the defence of the education system, for it is on the educaion of its people that the nation has to depend for its prosperity and progress.— I am, etc., PARKINSON, Secretary N.Z.E.I. Ist October. [A report of the teachers' deputation to the Minister is published on paire 8 of this; issue.] _______._■■_