DIFFICULT PUPILS
Head’s Suggestion Supported (Mew Zea Lana Preu Auociation) AUCKLAND, Dec. 8. Headmasters of three leading Auckland secondary schools today gave enthusiastic approval to the suggestion made last night by Miss R. 1. Gardner, headmistress of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, that pupils who refused to learn should have their right to be instructed withdrawn. “We are all thinking along the same lines." said Mr N. P. Pitcaithly, principal of Selwyn College. Mr C. H. Sayers, headmaster of Takapuna Grammar School, said: “Highly qualified teachers are being simply exasperated by children who ought not to be at school. If young persons intending to become teachers realised the position, the staff problem would become graver still." An immense amount of time was being wasted in coping with the problems raised in school by this recalcitrant minority, said Mr Sayers. Mr Murray Nairn, headmaster of Mount Albert Grammar School, said: “Everything in Miss Gardner’s statement is perfectly sound.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 11
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