WANTS OF TEACHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1920, Page 4

WANTS OF TEACHERS.

GRADING REGULATIONS RESENTED. PROTESTS FROM AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 5, The Auckland branch of the Educational Institute to-day received the report of its delegates to the recent conference in Wellington of inspectors and teachers. The meeting passed a unanimous resohitlon in condemnation of the reduction in marks of Auckland teachers, and also in the latest grading regulations, Bating that these latter were inequitable, and were discredited by a resolution passed at the Wellington conference. The meeting further recommended that the managing committee communicate with the Minister, and also later form a deputation in support of the protest. The opinion was further expressed that the present Assistant-Director of Education, who liap been concerned In the unfortunate friction between the department and the Auckland teachers, should not be a member of the Auckland Teachers' Appeal Board for 1920, particularly as. it was understood he was not a member of the Board of the Teachers' Court of Appeal in other districts. It was also decided to ask the Auckland Education Board 'to support a resolution which was passed to the effect that no decrease in salaries should be made in consequence of the recent reduction in the grading of Auckland teachers. Finally, it was unanimously resolved that it he requested that no alteration in educational legislation or regulations be made unless the proposed alteration be first submitted to the New Zealand Educational Institute for consideration.