COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20497, 16 March 1932, Page 13

COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

» on cdztob or thb i-aeaa.' Sr.—-Now that the Economy Comflhriiii'i Report has been published jljl we know what education econo- • mm suggested, I think' it is time fttflMMme raised a voice against the Mifetf our smaller country schools. ; 'flEplMM people who have children ijfftffiilji such schools can realise what ilm &7 are. The Correspondence excellent work in the cases ||fip|led children, but it is well jglPB that if the best results are to Mtttaioed, there must be co-opera-fjttwd help on the part of the parIMt cases it means that the falls on the mother. Most hers, in these days especirking and fighting, side by heir menfolk, to keep a their own and their chil- , and I do not think many > necessary time to devote nrision of the oorrespond- : others, again, may not lity to do so. children are deprived or > advantages of town chille discipline, personal oonle teacher, and association shildren which the schools [valuable, and would be a f the schools were closed, in if there should be only children and a competent ling to conduct such a e small salary offered, then wold remain open. lat school committees and rested in our smaller schools t once and do everything ee that they remain open. HARASSED MOTHER. Kb, 1932.