WOMEN TEACHERS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1933, Page 6

WOMEN TEACHERS

REMITS AT CONFERENCE

THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS

1 WELLINGTON, May 15

The annual meeting of the Women Teachers’ Association was held to-day, Mi*s S. Andrews presiding. Resolutions were passed that Government grants to kindergartens should be restored and that grade 11. assistants should he appointed to assist infant mistresses in every infant school with a roll of 120 or over, thus providing a continuous avenue of promotion for infant teachers.

A remit was passed that children should be enrolled at the beginning 'of the term in which /they reach the age of five years, and another that in view of the trend of modern education pressure 'should be biought to hear on the department for the immediate restoration of adequate school supplies. A protest was voiced against the reoo n.t!y-e!n acted intermediate school regulations on the following grounds: That it is neither in the best interests of children nor according to the best or notice in modern systems of education that internicdiate schools be restricted to a two-years’ course, and that the regulations are inequitable and unjustifiable as regards the proposed staffing scale. The question of superannuation is being considered by a committee.