THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1922, Page 9

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I (To the Editor.) Sir, —The ceremony on Anzac Day iai connection with the schools had to be cut short because the children had been kept standing too long. Tp prevent such happenings there should be a regulation, or, if needs be, an Act of Parliament to limit the time children can be kept standing at any function. Another matter that needs" attention is the number of changes of teacher that may be made in one term. One of my daughters had eight changes in one term, and since the holidays has had several again. How can scholars make reasonable progress under such conditions, especially as there seeming to be no definite method, each new teacher wanting things done this or that way different from the preceding one? Then there is far too much strapping and caning, some teachers having hardly time to attend to their pupils, their time being so occupied with it. I know of a school in the heart of London founded by the Rev. W. W. Jowett of Oxford, with 1300 boys from 11 to 26 years of age. where perfect discipline was maintained with absolutely no corporal punishment. There is something wrong if it is so absolutely necessarjr here.—l am, etc., ONE OF THE PARENTS.