JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1922, Page 12

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.

AN EXPERIMENT. (By Telegraph.—l'arliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. An interesting statement regarding an experiment in secondary education was Bade by the Minister of Education in reply to a question from Mr. T. X.. Sidey, who suggested that there was some uneasiness among those associated with the junior high schools regarding the plans of the Department. The Hon. C. J. Parr said that it -was Intended to make a trial of a new type of school for the instruction of children between the ages of 12 and 15 in one or possibly two schools. Nearly every country except Kew Zealand had an intermediate school which collected children at the age of 12 having fourth standard education, offering them a differential course. Something more than a mere classification course, commercial education, and agriculture would be catered for, among other things. This ■would, meet the requirements of children 40 per cent of whom never reached the sixth standard stage of efficiency. Country children who never had an opportunity of securing secondary education could benefit by this system, as it would be possible to establish consolidated schools to which they would be taken by motor transport.