[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have read
a letter, in your columns from "Another Correspondent" on the subject of teachers' salaries. The figures he gives are incorrect in every respect, as I will endeavour to show. The school he mentions, with an average attendance of 110, as a Grade II. school, consequently the maximum salary for a .head master, according to the Burnham Seale, is 2390. But this can only be attained in three years, so that his present salary is £360. His wife is only allowed to rank as an uncertificated teacher in a school of this size, and then her salary is 420. Now, by a very simple process of arithmetic, it will be seen that the united salaries of these two head-teachers is MO, exactly £270 less than the figures quoted by "Another Correspondent." Moreover, I am much surprised at two other assistant teachers being employed in a school of this size, but supposing this to be the ease— which I doubt—their united salaries will amount to £240, and not to 2486 as "Another Correspondent" states. I really must say that either he is grossly ignorant of the facts, or else he is wilfully endeavouring to mislead your readers. May I add that I am the head master of a school of 220 boys—a Grade III. school—and my present salary according to the scale is £400 16s. 8d., and I have been head master of this school for more than thirty years? I wonder if-" Another Correspondent" has any knowledge of history, or whether this is as faulty as his arithmetic, but if he has, does he remember the words used by a famous statesman on a very memorable occasion : "You are a liar, and only need courage to be an assassin"? I almost feel tempted to use these words to "Another Corre- spondent."—I am, Sir, &c., GEORGE W. KENT. St. Mary's Church School, Banbury.
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