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to arrange the duties of the staff in such a way as to
ensure each class receiving competent instruction.
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5.
At present the Headmistress's time
occupied in teaching the three upper
is altogether
classes and she is therefore prevented from supervising
in any way the work of the rest of the school, and the other
duties of her post have to be performed outside school
hours. This is not as it should be. There is no doubt
that the Headmistress should teach, but she ought to
have time to spare for other no less important duties
and if half her time is taken up with teaching her own
class, that is ample.
6.
Then the question of leave must be
taken into consideration. At present if one of the senior
members of the staff goes on leave it is impossible to
carry on the work of the school satisfactorily. There
is no doubt that the work of the Junior Division of the
school has suffered considerably during the last two
years owing to first Mrs. Tutcher and then Mrs. Bateman
being absent on leave. But if these two teachers take the
leave which has been fixed as what is necessary to enable
Government servants to retain their efficiency, the
school has for one third of the time only one European
teacher and her whole time is occupied in class teaching.
Miss Long's resignation gives the
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Government the opportunity of strengthening the staff by
engaging a European in her place. If this is done there
will