WOMEN TEACHERS.

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1927, Page 2

WOMEN TEACHERS.

Marriage Question. INQUIRY AT WELLINGTON. AV ELLINGTON, Feb. .16. A report furnished to the Wellington Education Board to-day showed the number of married women teachers employed by the Board to be 57. Air Clarke moved that sub-committec be set up to consider each case individually, and report to the full Board. Air Condon immediately rose and declared an unequivocal objection to this tyranny. There is, he said, some ulterior motive behind the motion. Their duty as a Board was to make the appointments from those best qualified to serve as teachers, not to inquire into the social status and domestic Fife o.i teachers. The Chairman. Air Forsyth, said the Board could not take any action against married teachers. If it thought lit, it could make recommendations that the regulations should In* altered with regard to future appointments of married teachers. in the course of the discussion, information was given that as ar as inspectors were concerned in most cases married women made better teachers than young girls. They were more experienced in tne proper handling of children. Air Clark said he did not want the Board to dismiss its married teachers, even if it had the power which it had not. What he wanted, was an investigation. There ' were upwards of 60 teachers out of the college with no positions to fill. The motion that the list of married teachers should be reported upon to the Board by a sub-committee was carried by six to four.