MORAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.
TO THE BDITOS 0? "THS **EBB." Sir.—-In to-day's issue of your paper you publish a letter signed:. "Parent " advocating the retention of the preparatory department at the Girls' High hchool. In that letter appears the following statement: "I speak from knowledge and experience when l say that the moral training girls receive- at the Girls' High School is infinitely beyond what is given at most of the primary schools, where the children are taught by sad;, experience, that to get their sums or their spelling wrong, or to write badly, is a far more serious offence than is cheating or lying. ' On behalf of the primary school teachers not only of our own district, but of the whole of the Dominion. I desire to mate a most emphatic protest against the utterly unwarranted aspersions cast upon "them bv your anonymous correspondent.— Yours, etc, I>. M. SHIRLAW, Hon. Secretary North Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Christchurch, December 23rd.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 24 December 1924, Page 13
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