A TEACHER SUSPENDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 29 October 1914, Page 2

A TEACHER SUSPENDED.

The suspension of a Victorian country State school teacher alleged to have been guilty of conduct rendering him unfit, in the opinion of the Public Service Board, to remain in the service, has been ordered by the Minister for Education. The teacher is a native of Australia, but of German parentage, and on reports made by the police and of officials, ho is taxed with disloyal conduct. Statements have been made by the parents of the children attending his school that he has been in the habit of reading newspapers to the scholars in the morning, and telling them not to believe the stories of German reverses, as he knows them to be untrue. The Germans, ho is declared to have stated, have been in Paris for several weeks. The war was not the faidt of the Kaiser, but of the Czar, and Germany must win in the end. According to other statements, the flag has not been hoisted at the school regularly on Monday mornings for the children’s salute, as is directed by the Education Department, but recently it has been noticed flying at half-mast.