BERESFORD STREET SCHOOL.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Mr. Mcßrine, writing about Beresford Street school, says: "The deterioration of the physical and mora] health of the children in such an environment is anything but gradual, and is irretrievable in later years." Now, sir, this assertion casts a nasty reflection on the school teachers as moral instructors and also on the parents of the Beresford Street school children. I personally am acquainted, as a neighbour, with many of the children referred to, and can testify to the fact that they are splendidly behaved in every way. It is true that there are children attending the Beresford Street school, and this | is true of many schools, who would benei fit in a moral way by a change of homelife. Where the home-life of children is clean, generally speaking, such will be reflected in the school-life, even were the schools built of mud.—l am, etc., W. J. BELL.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 7
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154BERESFORD STREET SCHOOL. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 7
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