CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19461, 7 November 1928, Page 14

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

TO THE EDITOB OV TBB PRESS. gj r) —With your permission I would like to reply to "Parent's" letter re the above. In the first place 30 children is not too many for one bus to carry if it is a proper bus for the purpose, and I think that "Parent" will find that the contract specifies' that a proper bus must be provided. I think he will also find that the contractor must keep the bus clean, and it is the duty of the school committee or the headmaster to see that it sb kept

dean; at any rt* * *2t|Srt "Parent" mentions made »«*2ris to the Board the, would"J* «™S that it was °kaned andjlacyg£ seating provided for U» *r te^i,. "Parent" goes •» *'!gJ? , g t 2sS« era can give more individual aw in small schools. How can that do possible with one teacher to p »Dou seven or eight different ** an, teacher about that. The dation of small country w hooto J\!en of the finest things that "» done for the backblocks «JjMr«[ *£ the contract is properly arranged tw bus generally starts from .the. home or the farthest out children u, the morn ing and collects the rest along ™* road which is mostly ft their own gates; therefore the childjenare awe to get to school warm and dry in wet weather and arrive fresh £*;»«£ lessons in hot weather; also geW™ a long way better attendance. Surety that 1b much better for the ch dren than having to walk even a mile to school, let alone several mgg country children have to. .E* I ™™? the bus that "Parent" complains of is not a proper one for the carryingot children to school, and. I think that the proper thing to do is to complam to the school committee or the Boara instead of writing to the Press and condemning the system. We ha™j£? four years' experience of a bus service for the children in our district ana know the advantages.—Yours, etc., VAVvX.