SIR,—As a graduate master serving in a grammar school (and
a member of the AMA) I was most interested to read Charles Brand's latest contribu- tion to your pages. I feel, however, that he has confused the issue—perhaps unintentionally : he has left out of account the non-graduate teachers in all types of secondary school.
Of course, specialist qualifications and responsible positions must be properly rewarded; the laws of supply and demand will ensure that they continue so to be. But when all is said it must be plain that primary teaching presents very different prob- lems from secondary. There would appear to be no lack of new entrants to primary schools. It seems to me, too, that most secondary teachers, faced with a primary class, would be able to cope with it, but how many primary teachers could manage a fourth- year secondary modern class or a sixth-form history 41 Blackwood Avenue, Rugby
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