SINGING IN SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 13

SINGING IN SCHOOLS.

I I I ,Try Editor i Sir, —In a recent of your popular paper I not'eed a report on the trashy song; generally sung by the school children at present —songs they often learn at homo. CVrtainly such ='>nss wou d ! ii.-v-T inj allowed at sdio<d. Many, like ' myself, are glad that this subject is to act the attonti' n it deserve?, if the cfs>-:al whoa: the Government have ;ipponrpH : Ami* his work well, for run- , .' , . especially singing, doe* much to elevate and enob'.e the character of thi> child. llf one a.-k;, the average child of t<>-J.iy to sins or recite one i.- very disapI pointed .it the result. It is very <i.t- ---; fert'nt from ciy school days, and my home life, when to be able to sing and recite was a very important part of our education. These are days of too much j materialism and not enough of, senti- ■ menr, and the effect is noticeable even in the children, who will, on Sunday evenings yell—not sing—ribald s>>n.ss. which on.' would only expect to hear i from half-drunken mm. Thi- from refined children who should k::ow hotter. , Now the mv -h-discussod subject of the B!b , i>-in-' i >-V' , : s ?f?ms decided, why cannot the children have a daily hymn in . stead of the Bible lesson in school? Xo I one could. I think, object to tha:. and I the impression made on the children ' wonid. maybe, remain with them for life. I am, etc.," J. L. KIN(.. I ~