Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893.
These is a flutter amongst those fairett olemployes, the female school teachers. They are underpaid in comparison with male teachers and the Post has taken up their cause and made a number of inaccurate statements on their behalf which are not pjikejy (o be very injurious tti it. We ijid believe that amongst the lady teachers of (he iVellingion Education Board tup was more intelligence than (hey appear to have displayed m this raat'er, for ii their claim be conceded we venture to say that" the majority of them will find their occupation gone. At present there are perhaps two female teachers to every majp teaphpr op the Bpatcj staff, put give the ladies the boon they crave and it is perfectly evident that in tho ftttviro there will he two mule teachers to every female teaoher, What really jb the position assuming that female teachers are psid at the sumo rate as male teachers ? Why every new appointment will bo given to a male applicant and no ladies need apply, The iuale teacher, the avemge male teacher, takes up tuition as a career on whioh his whole future depends, and works himself up to a high standard of profioienoy; the female teacher, that is the average female teacher, regards matrimony as her real paieer ujift {reaching as a temporary expedient. Sj)e dpps pot work herself up to a high standard of profioienoy m the same manner that a man does and her work is not—judged by results—as valuable as that of a,man. We are writing of the average male teacher arid the average female teapber, and we are well awarp there are certain picked fetnoje teachers who can hpjd their op against' the opposite sex; but it is not to these that we are referring. The reason why so many females are employed by the Wellington Board is that they accept low salaries. If the Board coupl afford to pay higher salaries, it would undoubtedly give men. a pre r feren.ee over worsen. The Ipadipg teichers in the profession complain that the staffs are overgrowded with ftmalo teachers, who, in mapy instances, nee not equal to turning out efficient work, Jfc is only the comparatively low ankles paid to females which enable them to retain their appointments in the face of such objections. It is not desirablo to reduce the incomes of.efficient mule teachers, beoause tho success of the Bjßtem depends more on the strong teachers than if does on the weak oncfl. Thg former are indispensable, but the latter 'can" be spared,' (fhe female teachers who earn something like a hundred a year until .they resign their, appointments in order to enter the bonds of matrimony, are, on flip' jyhple, objects of admiration ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4512, 1 September 1893, Page 2
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464Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4512, 1 September 1893, Page 2
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