THE MARRIED TEACHER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 13

THE MARRIED TEACHER

ROOM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE , (From Our Oton Correspondent.) PALMERSTON, To-day. The employment of married women teachers was a subject debated at some length at the annual meeting of the Palmerston North Schools’ Committees on Wednesday evening, It being decided to make strong representations to the Education Department concerning the matter. "I have been told,” stated the chairman, Mr. W. B. Cameron, “that it is necessary that there should be married women teachers, because they are more capable of dealing with certain aspects of school life, but I hold that there are many married women whose services should be dispensed with and the vacancies filled by young people coming out of the training colleges.” Mr. W. R. Mayes mentioned that the Government had advised young people not to take up the teaching profession because of the few vacancies that were available, and, in view of such a state of affairs, it was deplorable that there were so many married women holding Positions as teachers. He was not attacking, he explained, the qualifications of the married women; it was tne principle he took exception to. Following a discussion of the position from all angles, it was decided to vccommend the Education Department that legislation be introduced providing for the employment of married women on ly in cases where their husbands were unable to support them.