SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 14

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ls it not quite misfortune enough to have a houseful of sick and ailing children without having to make apologies and excuses to an aggressive educational nurse, who announces her presence at your door with a peremptory knock? She" is able to decide instantly that they will be well enough to attend school when the holidays are over, and flourishes an ominous-looking notebook in your face, in which she makes entries where your children's names are tabulated. ' Xo doubt her principle job is to keep the attendance up at all costs, and although whooping cough, which my children have not yet had, is very prevalent here, I suppose I shall have no option but to resume their attendance whatever their condition and take my chance of having another weary round of contagioos sickness like the last. For a nurse to come and tell you that your children are better at school than running about the streets when they are barely out of bed and have never been on the streets is adding insult to injury. —I am, etc., REBELLIOUS MOTHER.