TEACHERS' GRADING SYSTEM ASSAILED
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; AUCKLAND, Last Night. j The New Zealand syatem of grading teachers was asaailed by Dr. Williaia Boyd, head of the Department of Education at Glasgow University, when he replied to a question at the close of a leeture- tomight. He aaid he regardedj the procedure as an affront to the Jeach- , erB concerned. , Dr, Boyd's obaervations developedfrom' a eriticism which he expressea earlier in the address at the practice of listing students in order of merit on' account of the ill-elfects which it ha,d on those who were Tanked near the bottorn. When an analogy was drawn between this system and the currenL methods of grading teachers, lie ©xplained that he resented this "labeliing of persons." For a centralised system of education in New Zealand there was considerable difficulty in finding a basis for promofcion, and while some sort of grading might be worthy of consideration the continual checking up of teachers year after year seemed to be annoying. "Speaking as a teacher myself, I may say I resent this practice," Dr. Boyd stated. "I never saw an inspector come into the room without wanting to have a fight. The situation is frpnoj-jng. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 150, 13 July 1937, Page 14
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