PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 6

PRIMARY SCHOOLS

COMMON PROBLEMS FACED MEETING OF ASSOCIATION Questions affecting the common ; interests of teachers, parents and children were discussed at the annual meeting of the Primary j Schools’ Association last evening. There was a large attendance of delegates from affiliated committees. WITH a view to obviating the too frequent changes in staff, and the delays in transfer, the Grey Lynn School Committee suggested that (a) That teachers intending: to retire from the service be required to give at least three (3) months’ notice of such intention. (b) That in general, resignations (unless due to illness or some similarly unforeseen cause) must be in the hands of the secretary of the board not later than the first day of the school term and that such resignations and the appointments to the vacancies resulting therefrom shall become operative during the term holidays next ensuing. (c) That teachers in charge of Grade VII. schools and assistants in the top grade within,' say,' three years of retirement on superannuation be ineligible for appointment or transfer to a similar position—provision to be made for cases where a fall in the school grade would result in a decreased superannuation allowance, for the teacher to qualify, without transfer, for the maximum allowance to which he would have been entitled had the school not fallen in grade.. Mr. C. Bishoprick said Grey Lynn had been particularly hard hit during the year. This was agreed to. “A PERNICIOUS HABIT’’ “A pernicious habit,” is the description applied by a member to the methods of commercial firms and picture theatres In distributing advertisement leaflets among the children, and a remit, originating in Grey Lynn, was presented, asking the Education Board to call upon the City Council and other local bodies to make this 1 distribution an offence against the iV-iy-laws. The remit was lost. DENTAL CLINICS JThe association endorsed the principle of the school dental clinics belo;gr made available to all State school children before being extended to otheff schools. Title proposal originated at the Maiffoeawhau School, where the committee pointed out that It had repeatexMy been told that the Department ctiuld not keep pace with the applications for dental clinics from State schools. The question of liability for medical and .other expenses in cases of accidents; to pupils while in school grounds raised by the Royal Oak Committee,, whence a remit was tabled asking thast,. in the event of the Education Department having no obligations, an insurance scheme should be instituted. The remit vas referred to the executive for report. The association was notified by the Postmaster-Gen.e*ral, the Hon. .1. B. Donald, that he .could not provide an especially low ftoe for telephone installation in privaary schools. In special cases, howvsrer, the residential rate was allowed. "“All schools are special cases, I take' fit,” the president, Mr. G. E. Spooner, s’fflggested. OFFICERS EILECTED Offlce-bearers were: elected as follow: President, Mr. £>. E. Chappell; vice-president, the Rev* F. Greenwood; editor of the journal, G. Brownlee; executive, Mrs. I. M. .Pcufell (Mt. Roskill), Messrs, I. Hay (Remuera), D. L. Thomas (Gladston(P), R. Rew (Ponsonby), A. W. Dicks (.IVC-t. Albert), C. Bishoprick (Grey Lynn)-; .secretary, and treasurer, Mr. W. Dixovl.