New Zealand Gazette – 1922 – No. 2

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✨ Education Regulations

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TABLE B.

Average Attendance	for Year preceding	not over				Staff may be
	Four	Or Three	Or Two	Or One		increased as for Average Attendance.
(1)	Quarters to	Quarters to	Quarters to	Quarter to
	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)		(6)
30	..	..	31	33	36	38
60	..	..	61	63	66	70
90	..	..	91	95	100	105
120	..	..	and so on, adding 30 for each grade above Grade E.

(1.) If at the beginning of any quarter it appears that the attendance in any school other than a district high school, or in the primary department or secondary department of a district high school, has decreased so that the mean of the average attendance for the three quarters, or for the two quarters, or the average attendance for the quarter immediately preceding, has in the case of any such school or primary department fallen as low as indicated in columns 2, 3, and 4 respectively of Table C hereto, or in the case of any secondary department as low as indicated in columns 2, 3, and 4 respectively of Table D hereto, then the staff of any such school or primary department shall be reduced to that prescribed for a school having the average attendance shown in column 5 of Table C; or, as the case may be, the staff of any such secondary department shall be reduced to that prescribed for a secondary department having the average attendance shown in column 5 of Table D : Provided that the Board may in any case reduce the staff of any school or department at any time after the average attendance for any quarter has fallen below the minimum of the grade or subgrade of the school or department, as the case may be : Provided further that if at the end of the quarter first mentioned it is found that the average for the quarter is at least equal to the minimum of the grade in which the school or department is placed, the staff may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, be maintained till the end of the subsequent quarter, and so on from quarter to quarter till the 1st February next ensuing.

(2.) The assistant who is to be removed in order to give effect to the provisions of th, last preceding subclause shall, in general, be so selected as to avoid as far as possible changes in the staff of the school, and such selection shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.

(3.) If under the provisions of subclause (1) hereof the reduction in the staff would require the removal of a pupil-teacher the Board may retain such pupil-teacher on the staff of the school or department until the first opportunity occurs for transfer to another school, but in no case longer than the 31st January next ensuing.

TABLE C.

Showing the Decrease in Average Attendance upon which the Staff of a School shall be reduced.

Average Attendance for Year immediately preceding.				Staff to be as for a School with Average Attendance.
	For Three Quarters to	Or for Two Quarters to	Or for One Quarter to
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
36–80	34	32	30	21–35
81–120	78	74	70	36–80
121–160	118	114	110	81–120
161–200	158	154	150	121–160
201–240	197	194	190	161–200
241–280	237	230	220	201–240
281–320	277	270	260	241–280
321–360	317	310	300	281–320
361–400	357	350	340	321–360
401–440	397	390	380	361–400
441–480	435	430	420	401–440.
481–520	475	470	460	441–480
and so on, adding 40 for each subgrade above Sub-grade VIIA.