Primary Schools

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 3

Primary Schools

Sir.—The attendance of: parents at the biennial school! committee elections makes dismal reading. This shocking lack of interest brings about the iniquitous disparity between the amenities and facilities in post-primary as compared with primary schools. The former, built by the Ministry of Works, have all sorts of refinements: linoleumed floors, copious lighting, lighting over blackboards. Adequate ventilation, easy access, heaps of storage space, etc. Primary schools, built by cheese-paring education boards, are most inadequately provided for; and while spineless parents are prepared to sit at home and do nothing this will continue. Very few parents indeed realise the circumstances which create the discrepancy, and obviously fewer still care two hoots just what provision is made to ensure that teachers and children can work efficiently.—Yours. etc.,

PRACTITIONER'S MATE.

May 3, 1963. [“There is definitely no cheese-paring in the building and equipping of primary schools. I suggest that your correspondent make arrangements to inspect a new school, say, Cobham Intermediate,” said the secretarymanager of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr W. P. Spencer).]