Remote area teacher needs

This is a new and continuing chapter in a story of need that is decades old.

It takes me back in time to the memory of a working party st up in the late 1970’s, with the task of “developing a program of incentives that woud attact teachers to remote area service “, then “retaining them for extended periods of time.”

Many of the needs and incentives being identified and suggested in 2024, were made by that group of educators.

The working group included members appointed by the education department and the teachers’ union.

I was a union member of the group.

Our extensive recommendations were minimally met, and what we identified back then are still concerns of this present time.