SMALLER CLASSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 297, 15 December 1936, Page 8

SMALLER CLASSES.

OPINION OF HEADMISTRESS.

The need for a reduction in the size of classes was stressed by the principal of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Miss E. M. Johnston, at the annual prizegiving ceremony yesterday. "New Zealand compares very unfavourably in this respect with other countries," Miss Johnston said, "and tinder present conditions, with the primary school population reduced and the outlook for secondary schools uncertain, the reform could be effected without disorganisation or extra expense. "The suggestion is worth the consideration of the authorities," she added.

"The primary schools are seemingly - worse off than the post-primary schools, but the latter have their own special difficulties, due to a fixed scale of staffwhile specialist teaching and the provision of a variety of courses inevidemand liberal staffing, educational reorganisation is in the +Vio'(. an v. * s to the good provided '~ an .g e \ are effected on sound m Johnston. "Some of throwing away "he'b t dan S cr of Most of our New 7 y i W1 V l the bathschools are evolvi™ mol , 6econdar y into multi.cours e g S cCl 8 0 V n e d SS - r f a^ id,y '. v .speeding up of this-process hv A W a vision of adequate etnffin "y the proraent that is* egfe . ot hcr words, evolution