Burnside High School
Sir,—I applaud the decision of the Christchurch Post-Primary Schools’ Council to reopen the question of the Burnside High School, because I feel that the council should not be accused of rushing through such an important matter without adequate discussion. However, ’I consider that the pros and cons of coeducation have not been satisfactorily decided. Why do most university professors and many of our educational leaders choose single-sex schools for their own daughters? Why do our girls’ high schools .have to turn away innumerable applicants? Is it not because these schools educate girls to become “thoughtful well mannered women?” (Leslie Hall in “Landfall,” March, 1958) This type of cultural education in its widest sense is not a product of our coeducational schools, which tend to be permeated by an essentially masculine attitude to education. This concerns all Christchurch parents and not just those who live in the immediate vicinity of Burnside.—Yours, etc., FREEDOM OF CHOICE. May 29, IQSB.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28599, 30 May 1958, Page 3
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