Stn,---Mr. Charles Brand's plea for better pay for well qualified
grammar school masters doing sixth- form work deserves support but I would suggest that the hardships and injustices which are the teachers' lot are not restricted to the men who teach in grammar schools.
The basic Burnham Scale (£520 x £27-1 to £1.000 in seventeen years) is not sufficient for any married man teacher and it is an impossible salary for a man with a family unless his wife goes out to work. Surely the National Union of Teachers is right in demanding a higher basic scale for all teachers before going into the question of differential rates for specialists. ' May I add that as a graduate headmaster of a junior and infants' school 1 should like to point out to Mr. Brand that his idea of infant work as 9 to 3.30 and home to the telly is moonshine.—Yours faith- fully,
Sandiway C.P. School, Northwich
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