SCHOOL RE-GRADING

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1932, Page 8

SCHOOL RE-GRADING

ON TEACHE.ES. (Per Press Association- — Copyright.) ' : ' OHRBTOEE%CH, ; August 17 • ' ~ co.rts?,qgent.r,udu(;-., tion p ,sta :^'' and f alaries, is expected in Canterbury .‘schools at the end of the first torixl noyt.year as the result of thij raismg school entrance. age from five to six years. .' The secretary of the Canterbury Education Board- (Mr C. R. Kirk) stated that for , grading purposes the school year month.. Schools graded on the. mean average attendance for the pecembeir ) May asd August ter,nis. The. grading would take effect on February I,'but'it would not be known until thei end of the term j hoiv the attendances would be effected. If the usual number of five-year-old pupils were not enrolled in February at some schools they would go down a grade. It would t.hen be,.the ;dutjr' of the: Education Board to adigst -staffs! to comply with the. scale. ' / Iheboard might have .off one or two junior teachers; A teacher’s salary was ,riot reduced until twelve months, after / drop in grade, unless he or she had an offep of a transfer, in which case the period was three months. The,'headmaster of a school that was lowered in grade would receive a reduction in. salary of up to £4O and in one or two more than that sum. ; i tfhe . re-grading of schools ( would Have the effect of providing fewer posi- ■ twins (for ,new ‘teachers. At the present time there were a good number of teachers without permanent positions, .but they were,all (receiving work under the rationing system.