School a ‘babysitting service’ because of lack of relief teachers, principals sayTRA NGUYEN/STUFF Splitting classes is the "new norm", principals say. The south Auckland school was able to get two relief teachers in, but that still left three classes without a teacher. Splitting classes has become more common as relief teachers have become harder to come by. "After almost 15 years in this business I have never known the supply of relief teachers to be so critically low," chief executive Martin Strang wrote in the email. As well as splitting classes, principals reported senior leaders stepping in to teach and teachers coming to work while sick.

Source: Stuff September 08, 2018 03:11 UTC