§ Sir J. YOXALLasked the President of the Board of Education if his attention has been drawn to the insulting language used by Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, chairman of the Worcestershire Education Committee, towards teachers in the employ of that committee who applied for additional salary or bonuses because of war conditions; whether he is aware that Mr. Bund has informed the teachers concerned that if they can induce the Minister of Education to insert in the new Education Bill a Clause to say that no demand of teachers for higher salaries however made shall for the future be termed whining 1320W mendicancy, he will not use that term after the Clause is law; and, whether, in view of the terms used and the attitude adopted towards teachers by this chairman, he proposes to take any steps to produce a change?
Mr. FISHERThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative and to the second part in the negative. I cannot constitute myself censor of chairmen of education authorities; but I confess that the language used in this case strikes me as unfounded in substance and needlessly provocative in tone, and I sincerely hope that it does not represent the attitude of the local education authority towards the teachers in their employment.