Secondary School Enrolments

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 9

Secondary School Enrolments

Sir,—Secondary school officials arppear to consider as satisfactory the fact that 256 out of 3600 children did not get into their first-choice school Satisfactory this may be to the officials, and satisfactory it would have been to t parents provided that pupils < had been selected for these i State-run institutions princi- I pally on the basis of the i proximity of their dwellings 1 to the desired schools. Un- 1 fortunately, in some cases the selection was made on un- i specified and undeterminable I grounds. Many children have ' to face years of long cyclerides, in some cases up to three miles, through busy : streets with the accompanying bitter knowledge that , others living further than they from the schools which refused them admission have got in. I hope that the mem- 1 here of some autocratic high school boards will remember these children on cold, wet mornings, as in the event of an accident to one of them the legal aspects might prove interesting.—Yours, etc., CHILDREN’S WELFARE. August 18. 1963.