MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1900, Page 4

MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Ah injustice has unquestionably been done third year, pupil teachers. Perusal of the letters appearing in our columns this evening should satisfy any fair-minded person that the musical paper submitted to these teachers at the recent examination went beyond the prescribed syllabus. The unfairness of setting back for.a year a large'number of hard-working1 young people who have obtained the necessary percentage of marks in all the essential subjects, because they failed in a paper on music, which was entirely beyond the standard, is so obvious that there is no need to dilate upon it. In most scholastic examinations, if it can be shown that a paper has been set entirely beyond the course of instruction imparted, a new examination is allowed. It seems to us. that in the present instance the duty of the Board of Education does not need to be pointed out. If the facts are as there is every reason to believe, we have confidence in the Board, on investigation, doing the right thing. A fresh examination, whether its results were favourable to the candidates or • not, would remove a rankling feeling of injustice among the teachers, which, if it continue, must militate against the best interests of the service.