MARRIED WOMEN AS SCHOOL TEACHERS. A CHRISTCHURCH OPINION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 365, 4 May 1889, Page 6

MARRIED WOMEN AS SCHOOL TEACHERS. A CHRISTCHURCH OPINION.

CiißisTOfiUßCii, April 30. | "A Parent," writing to one of the Christclmrch papers on the subject of married ladies being employed as teachers, says : I am led to understand that some of the Boards of this colony have followed the plan of the London Boards of Biitain in refusing 1 to sanction such a custom. Common decency says amen to such a plan, but throughout North Canterbury the rule seemed, to be for lady teachers when they get married to remain in their situations. "Now I can understand the propriety of widows who hold cerfcih'cates or of ladies whose husbands are incurable invalids being appointed to such a po&ition, but" for wives of gentlemen who leceive large salaries as teachers or who occupy good positions in commercial houses to continue, is beyond my comprehension. In and around the city of Christchurch there is, I am informed, scarcely a school in which married ladies whose husbands hold important professional and other positions are not to be found. Is this right ? Is it fair to many young ladies who are yearly passing out of the college or finishing their apprenticeship as pupil teachers? It is to be hoped that those school committees who have such persons in their employ will take steps to remedy this evil, for such it really is.