SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
APPEAL TO TEACHERS 9000 CHILDREN AFFECTED An appeal to teachers to co-operate and assist the Education Department in the new problems created by the raising of the school leaving age to 15 years was made by the Director of Education (Dr. C. E. Beeby) at yesterday’s conference in Christchurch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Indicative of the general feeling throughout the country in favour of this long overdue reform, said Dr. Beeby, was “the very excellent’’ leading article which had appeared in “The Press,” which he warmly commended to his hearers. “But that is only one newspaper opinion,” he added. “My information is that there is considerable support throughout the Dominion in favour of it.” There were particular difficulties, apart from staffing and accommodation, said the Director, that could be solved only by the teachers themselves. “It is no use the 15-year-olds coming back for another ladleful of the old gruel,” he said. “It is up to, you teachers to find new interests for these children, to make this final year at school attractive for them.” ’ Dr. Beeby added that about 9000 children throughout New Zealand would be affected by the raising of the school age.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23947, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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