School Flags
Sir, —One reads with disgust of the vandalism caused last week-end in an Oamaru school, when flowers to mark Anzac Day were deliberately ruined. This is just one more reminder of the attitude so many of our younger citizens have towards this day of remembrance. Is it to be wondered, however, that this attitude is so evident when even teachers fail to remind their pupils of the significance of this day in the nation’s history? On Anzac Day I had occasion to pass many schools (particularly primary) and in not one school was the flag hoisted. One would form the opinion that the headmasters of these schools were either too callous or too lazy to make arrangements for the hoisting of the flag, even if it did mean a few minutes of their time on a Saturday. Yours, etc., BY THEIR DEEDS.
April 29, 1964. [The secretary-manager of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr W. P. Spencer) replies: “ ‘The board’s bylaws provide that all schools in its district carry out the ceremony of ‘honouring the flag’ on April 24 and a comprehensive form of ceremony is given. There would be few schools that do not organise the sale of poppies through pupils, but the matter of flying flags is one for headmasters and school committees.”]
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 12
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