GERALDINE SCHOOL
Sir, —You report Geraldine’s new headmaster as saying: “It is hard to see why the primary school was ever separated. If Forms I and II remain at the secondary department there will be a lack of supervision.” The set-up at Geraldine was created on the authority of a Minister of Education with a view to forming a separate high school, with Forms I and II attached, but the war hindered administrative changes. It promised big improvements in rural secondary education because of a larger pool of specialised staff. This is apparently still the modern viewpoint. The then Prime Minister was reported in “The Press” last year as saying it was the intention of the Education Department to convert some district high schools to rural high schools, with Forms I and II attached, so that secondary education in rural areas might be improved.—Yours, etc., DOUGLAS C. McKECHNIE. Geraldin?, April 2, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26078, 3 April 1950, Page 2
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