The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1908. PROMOTING TEACHERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 393, 24 March 1908, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1908. PROMOTING TEACHERS.

The Wanganui Education Board’s Chief Inspector repoiled to the Board at its last meeting, that: — “The Inspectors have begun their work in the North of the Central District, and the first seiies of reports is to hand. Some of these are full of promise, but others do not make very hopeful reading, and until the country makes it worth the while of fully qualified teachers to spend some time at the outposts ol settlement, it will be impossible for children in many of the more remote schools, to do themselves justice.” What’s the country got to do with it ? The above is an evidence that the Wanganui Education Board’s methods of appointing teachers is decidedly loose. It would pay the Wanganui Board to take a leaf out of the Wellington Board’s method of appointment and promotion. When a capable teacher has served a time in a back country school, his application for appointment to a town school should receive prior consideration to the teacher who has thought it beneath his or her dignity to take a turn out back. If the Board made it clear to teachers tfiat their promotion would be facilitated, other things being equal, by accepting duty for a term at out-of-the-way schools, then the Chief Inspector would no longer have cause to complain.