EDUCATION SUFFERING?

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 9

EDUCATION SUFFERING?

BIRKENHEAD COMPLAINT. UNDERSTAPFING ALLEGED. "It is clearly our duty to do something if there is anything m this com plaint. There should be no qucstion as to the efficiency of the edueatmn of t e children," remarked Mr. H. S. W. & g at yesterday's meeting of the Auck land Education Board, when the Birke head School Committee advised that complaints were being made that, owing to there being only one headmaster and a shortage of teachers, the education of the pupils of the Northcote Junior High School was suffering. . The chairman, Mr. A. Burns, said that the Education Department baa twice declined to appoint separate headmasters for the Birkenhead and NortJicote schools. The Department considered that one headmaster was preferable to two. A member: Quite right, too! Mr. King asked if therfe was any specific instance of the education of» children suffering. He did not like to accept accusations of a general character. It was decided to request the committee to furnish the board with more definite information as to the position at the Northcote schooL V