PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 68, 20 March 1919, Page 7

PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I venture to bring under the notice of your readers the paramount importance of parents co-operating to secure a more regular attendance at the public schools and forever putting aside many of the trivial reasons for nonattendance. And, sir, I trust the school committees will take a united stand against the too frequent system ot granting holidays unless for good reasons which none could question. Dayholidays, 1 would venture to say. should not be granted unless school committees are unanimous upon it. We have had an instance of a difference of opinion on St. Patrick's Day of this week. Why, sir, if these days are to be observed with any degree of impartiality we may continually have to be giving holidays. Parents should not fail to attend the annual meetings, which are held shortly, and show by their presence that they, to some extent, manifest the very hignest interest in the work we are aiming to accomplish. It is at these annual meetings that we look to the householders to cooperate in ventilating matters which will tend still further to strengthen the incoming committees to do more efficiently the work they are elected to carry out. ■ —1 am, etc.,

J. BURTON, Chairman, Grafton District School Committee.