TRIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30156, 13 June 1963, Page 4

TRIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Form I To VI I Plan Wanted i

A Form I to Form VI high school should be established for trial in a new area, and an intermediate school converted to a junior high school in the terms of the report of the Commission on Education, says a leading article in the journal of the New, Zealand Post-Primary Teachers’ Association. “It would surely be worthwhile making special endeavours to bring together enough proficient teachers so that such schools could be given a trial,” the article says. “Certainly we shall never know until we try, no matter how much confident assertion is made one way or another.” The beginning of post-prim-ary education at Form I was the proposal that had aroused the most interest in educational circles and received greatest support from the general public. Parents and governing bodies throughout the country had already asked that the change-over be made in all circumstances, not merely where it was necessary to make one viable postprimary school. It was, perhaps, a shortage of the right kind of teacher that had delayed development so long, and in the case of junior high schools it might be best to leave the intermediate schools as they were until a better supply of suitable teachers was available for the change-over, but an experiment should be made with the Form I to Form VI schools in a new area right away, the article says.