DANCING IN SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11008, 4 July 1901, Page 5

DANCING IN SCHOOLS.

\ A STRONG PROTEST. i-".'. * the Education Board's meeting yes- | Hl*_ay, a letter was received from Mr * A. . E. Lowe, Chairman of the Tai Tapu School Committee, witth regard to the use of the tchcol for purposes of amusement, applioa- , tion navinc been received for its us© for a locial and danoe. The Comm_ttoe, by a ma- .. jority, resolved that the letter be received, ( f . irithout discussion, and granted the applical tion. The Chairman further stated that ho 3f n_c.o_.ed a letter signed Ixy parents of ehil- . thwn attending tho school, which he was in £. full sympathy with. £ 'llw> letter from the parents requested that '}' l_<s School Comm-ttee d«cfine to allow the j-tehool to be u*ed for dancing purpose!., aa ■'. t_tey considered it inimical to the welfare tivl their children. ; Mr Lowe further wrote, stating that the Vobjectors believed that the Act. gave ample '; power to guard the interests of education in Unary way, and held (leaving out for the Jtooment the moral aspect, of dancing held .. bgr many) that leaving tho pow,er in the of tbo Committee does, in many ~'at_ntry school., net adversely to educational -) .-flteresU.. It was unneccS-Muy to state that ,> j»Mir person, considered promiscuous dancing highly immoral, ami a very great evil, I'ma the objectors believed that "if the school *,'.> which their children were compelled to / I «t_nd were us_d for such purposes, they ■•' *o._ld be quite justified in refusing to let '-: their children attend.

'•■ After dis-U-Wrion, the Board decided to '. lwc_ its soiiciter's opinion. It was further resolved to .issue a circular ;to «41 School Committee*, advising them ti*. ia iuch oases the incidental allowance , would in future bo withheld, in order to be ' Medfar making good the damage done where *"W__ were used for other than scuool t ftm^wMa,