SECONDARY EDUCATION
To the Editor.
None of your correspondents has seen fit to suggest an alternative to the course taken by the head mistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School in dealing with the excess of candidates for admission to the school. One writes about injustice to those rejected, but what of the injustice to the 600-odd pupils had an attempt been made to squeeze another 80 or 90 girls into the already crowded classrooms? The writer has never met Miss Johnston, but for the past seven years has been closely in touch with her work and can testify to the fact that at all times the welfare of the girls has been her first consideration. Miss Johnston deserves the thanks of the parents for, by her action, compelling the authorities to sit up and take notice and one of your correspondents, Mr Martin, I think, pays her a high compliment by his insistence on the girls' right to attend the Grammar School and not an auxiliary one. The Minister's statement "That the test should not have been used" carries no weight, as he has always been an adept at "passing the buck," as witness his reluctance to meet the local authorities to discuss the question of child delinquency. PARENT,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1944, Page 4
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