Secondary School Enrolments
Sir. —Your statement in this morning's paper that the secondary school enrolment position in Christchurch can now be considered satisfactory quite ignores the main point at issue and the first rights of parents. I believe parents should have the right to have their child admitted to their nearest secondary school if they apply there in the first instance. That appears to have happened in all Christchurch secondary schools except the three you have named. These three schools are provided by Government funds like the others, and I
see no reason Mfißr • they should have the right to accept pupils on the -busis of “the old school tie” or academic ability until they hava accepted all those pupils who can claim that they are toelr nearest secondary schookHow- many, if any, children were turned down by these three schools who could claim to live nearer to them than any other secondary school? —Yours, etc.. KM. August 18. 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30212, 17 August 1963, Page 3
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