TEACHERS PROTEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 11

TEACHERS PROTEST

RISE IN TRAINING COLLEGE STANDARD Special to THE SUN NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. South Taranaki teachers protested in a meeting at Opunake yesterday against the new regulations this year providing that probationers must pass a special training college entrance examination before being admitted to the training college. The opinion was expressed that the regulation would have the effect of considerably narrowing the number applying to be admitted to the teaching profession. A motion was passed asking that the regulations be postponed until next year and that exemption be granted for subjects passed in matriculation or in the teachers’ D examinations, which were the former entrance examinations. There was a grave danger of narrowing the choice of entrants to the profession. The choice had been narrow enough previously, since only a very small percentage of the population could reach the matriculation standard and of those only a very few desired to become teachers. Under the new regulations the only ones who would feel safe in applying for entrance would be higher leaving certificate students and many parents could not afford to leave children at school for the extra year necessary to gain that certificate.