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MN on ,nieb "-«-«- .""'l.,§§..°‘.'.i’ :5. 's°.“°.;::.:;:.: which Ref 1; possible for trustees M‘ “mow money to pay teachers’ btlirlgenu on A monthly basis. .9 Sm, not, of course. make any Th“ diate change in the old sys- immel paying your supplements lei“ ° year but it does provide "me not doing it for willing dis- '.‘"y A; one time the teacher’; ""1" 1 may have’ been re-

ble on overdue tax ".f,l;:,r‘e'.T'hes'e are matters meme,” you only indirect-

'"pg:]m:: something extra or s Hr“! hut this view surely is hgnyapger valid. It represents a Ti

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Such I would favour seeing it “hm in monthly installments. £31,001 districts which may see {Mr way door to make thi: Hm,-‘ﬁe will find it easier to Be mcnors as I believe you would _ preriate the advantage oi reg- ?” monthly payments. u-'Tl~,e final amendment to the “M01 Act did not originate with me although requests were made [or 11, I felt obliged to follow W. ndx-lee of the Council of Edu- rsiion which was to take a vote I. all school meetings this year ,,. ascertain the wishes of the "M10;-ii_\' of school districts as to W, lists of the annual school memng_ However. a motion was ,,.a.1;- trom-the floor of the House “mg the date he changed to the “M Tuesday in June and this ycniion carried. You -may. there- Wi-. Inform your district that the ‘r)i(lt‘\l meeting this year will be M, Tu.-;d.1y_ June lst, so they may pr/*p1l't" for it.

"The amendments to the Edu- ration Department Act provided for three representatives from the 'l‘e.1chers’ Federation to be memiiI,'i‘< of the Council of Edu- ration and one representative from ma linme and School Association ,; null as the director of the Prince Edward island Vocational School I believe this change gives your Teachers Federation proper

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representation on this important glivisar)' council.

"\ change in the Teachers‘ Pension Act which concerned (‘iiariottetown teachers only was n‘r1ilI‘<l.Cd by the Charlottetown .<r.-hooi Board to correct what iiu-_v claimed to be an error in a fnrmcl‘ amendment and again

{.i.1«‘cs an upper limit on this type or }1r‘n.'<if)l'i of $500.

Superannuation Act

"l believe, however. that many of you will he interested and li‘Fl'ilf‘l be interested in the change to the Teachers‘ Superan- nuation Act. This may possibly Mt meet with the full approval -4 all but I think it should meet i\i'h fairly general approval. De- 5'i.<i(ii'i to go ahead with this Imcndmcnt which substantially .-imuzcs the whole basis for the pajxniciit of pensions was arrived at nnlv after long and careful de- liberations. The reasons for it are iimpie: 147 teachers presently em- played have breaks in service ex- ra-rding six consecutive years and their previous teaching service was. until‘ the amendment passed, iN‘li2lblL' to be counted as teach- ms: service for pension purposes. This was a serious matter for these teachers. The continuity of If'i‘\‘|i'! clause has now been ‘elim- inated. Perhaps many of you ni::in't realize it. but nevertheless _\nii would have sooner or later mm to the grim realization that many of your teaching years would mt have counted at all towards _vour pension. Of those 147 teach- Jr: 52 had a break from 6 to 9

_u~-v:. 119 had a iirmk from 10 to /VOW .

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! years: i lied s bust of ever It years. In addition to those. previously mentioned. there are 107 of the present teachers with service prior to July 1st. 1931. of these 70 bed their services void- ed prior to 1931 because they had not been engaged in teaching during the year 1931 when the Act first came into force. This discrimination has also been cor- rected.

"In all, therefore. there are 217 of the present teachers in this Province who may benefit from the change. It is, in my way of thinking. primary and elementary justice for these 217 people, and this was the basic reason why the change was made.

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"The effect it may have on the pension fund, while important. is. in my opinion, only of secondary importance. After all the fund is fully guaranteed by the Province and in the long run if there is any deficiency in the fund it is the Provincial Treasurer who must pay. ‘

"It is my understanding how- ever, that if contributions have been withdrawn for A period of teaching service previously void- ed by the continuity clause that teachers would have to make up such contributions to the fund within the next five years. This five year clause also applies to war service which may be count- ed as teaching service under cer- tain conditions.

“The two new Acts will make no substantial change in our edu- cational system. The first. an Act to provide for the rehabilitation of disabled persons. was passed to enable an agreement to be signed on behalf of the Province with the Government of Canada concerning the rehabilitation the disabled. This agreement has now been signed. We hope that through Federal and Provincial co-operation that ways may be found to do more for our disabled and that we may find additional ways and means of providing them with general and vocational education to enable them to be- come useful and productive citi- zens.

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I’. W. C. Legislation

"The last Act was the Prince of Wales College Act. There were several acts in the past concern- ing Prince of Wales College and the most recent of these was pas- sed in 1939. However. this act disappeared and since 1945 the entire control. under the law. was with the Minister of Education. The new not provides for a Board of seven trustees including the Principal of the College. the Di- rector of Education and five mem- bers of the Executive Council. This Board has now been estab- lished under the chairmanship of Premier A. W. Matheson and I am included among its members. The effect is to broaden the re- sponsibility of directing the af- fairs of the College.

I have spoken long enough on the effect of recent legislation. Perhaps I should enter the pop- ular discussion field and dwell upon what has been termed by Coliier's Magazine as the ‘gravest crisis in the 300 year history of American education.‘ Sometimes our people become confused when they read such article‘: or when they read books in condemnation of our educational systems and they immediately conclude that the worst of all things imaginable are presently with us in our own Island schools. Ladies and gentle-

men. I believe You Wm EH89 with me thatythey are not. Our schools are well directed and

well run and while improvements are possible and are most desir-

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able. nevertheless. our educational foundation ress on solid ground. M any rate, so far. I have not been able to discover any evidence to ‘the contrary.

“I do not wish to be tagged with any of the new popular des- ignations such as progressivist or traditionalist. Personally, I think there is considerable room be- tween the two extreme.-s., I do not believe that most of our edu- cutionalists are either good or bad, or bad or good, depending on the eyes through which they

are viewed. I believe in the idea somewhat expressed in these words: " ‘There is so little good in the best of us . And so little bad in the worst of us.

That it ill behooves any of us. To talk about the rest of us.’

Teacher Shortage

"There is one problem that faces us in common with other Provinces and with other coun- tries — that is the problem of a shortage of fully qualified teach- ers.

"During the recent hearings be- fore the Committee on Education the thought was expressed con- cerning the possibility of com- bining the academic and profes- sional years and by giving more professional training by an ex- tension of the college year and by summer courses. This, among other things. I have noticed has been misunderstood. One thing that is foremost in our minds is that there shall be no lowering of the standard of the training of teach- ers. In fact the discussion cen-

tered on the raising of the aca- demic standard so that all second class teachers would have matricu- lation standing. In other words it would still take two yeprs be-

yond Grade X. plus an extended field

college course and summer courses in purely professional work to qualify.

“I must say that nothing has been worked out along these lines. The problem presents many diffi- culties but it has certain ad- vantages among the greatest of which would be qualification for teaching without the loss of- one ycar of academic advancement. This might result in more young men and young women taking what might be termed an inten- sive side course of teacher train- ing.

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“Now with reference to the pupils in the high school grades of our schools —- a few years ago any of us might have hesitated to urge our young people to me. pare for ,the teaching profession. Today. however, the picture has changed. steadily increasing sal- aries during the past few years. and better working conditions have combined to make the teach- ing profession an attractive one \‘m‘ !I_ young man or young woman starting out In life. Even if it be but for a few years a young per. sun can make a fine contribution to the teaching service and at the. same time acquire both ex- perience and training that will be Valuable in other fields, I would urge you when giving guidance and. advice to your upper grade pupiis to point out the great

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