WORKLESS TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 267, 1 February 1928, Page 11

WORKLESS TEACHERS

“LET THE BOND LAPSE” YEAR’S TIME-LIMIT WANTED BOARD'S PLEA FOR STUDENTS If the Education Department cannot provide a teacher with • work within 12 months, then the bond should lapse. The Auckland Education Board was unanimously in favour of this amendment to the regulations, this morning, when members criticised the “lopsidedness” of the present bond executed by parents or guardians of students entering training colleges. The bond of £250 states that after attending a training college a male student “shall Immediately thereafter serve as a teacher for five years” and that a woman student shall serve for three years. Mr. T. U. Wells said that a student should merely be required to be available for five or three years. If employment could not be given in that time then the bond should lapse. “It is absolutely unfair,” said Mr. J. Boddie. The Chairman, Mr. A. Burns: The teacher is under a disadvantage because when he comes out of college he is not allowed to take 6ther employment, even though there is no teaching position open for him. Mr. H. S. W. King said the bond was “one-sided.” It would be different if teachers had taken legal advice in drawing lit up. On the motion of Mr. E. C. Banks it was decided to recommend that the department should allow the bond to lapse if no work could be given the teacher within 12 months.