THE APPOINTMENT OF TEACHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 16 June 1885, Page 2

THE APPOINTMENT OF TEACHER.

To the Editor, Sib,—Your contemporary either ia (for a journalist) -culpably;. ignorant of facts he should know, or, which is even, worse than ignorance, wifully perverts (to suit liis own opinions) what he knows to be facts. In a leader under date, June 11th, he tries to make the public believe that the Wellington Education Board acts in a manner different from all other Boards in the appointment of teachers. This is not so. No advertisements for teachers are made by the Auckland Board, as it makes appointments from its own list of teachers, and anyone satisfying the Board of his or her qualifications and fitness, is put on that list and sent to a suitable school when a vacancy occurs, .In Dunedin the Board appoints, In South Canterbury tho Board sends two or three applications, numbered in order of merit, to the School Committee, but if No. i is rejected and No. 2 chosen, the Board refuses to sanction the choice. This happened in the School, and, in consequence, the whole Committee resigned, Even this did not move that incorrigible body, and two of its members were appointed in lieu of the retired Committee. In North Canterbury, Committees have the privilege' of advertising (and, I think, too, of paying for the privilege), but if the Board does not approve of the Committee's selection; it vetoes it and makes its own. This happened in my own case; an applicant was selected whom the Board did not approve of, and I was appointed instead. I write this letter to • you, knowing nothing of either applicant', arid acquainted with • none of your school Committee, but 1 do not tlunk such statements as were made in the Star should go unchallenged. 1 may say, too, that notwithstanding the button-holing so much written about and spoken of, I myself should have every confidence in the fairness of the Wellington Board, had I any appointment to seek under it, and should apply without fear of favor, or thinking it necessary to button-hole any of its members, Hoping you will find room for this communication I am, etc, A Teacher.