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Remedial Teaching fN.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 17. Ten per cent of children starting at Auckland secondary schools would require remedial teaching, the district senior inspector of schools, Mr G. F. Horsfall, said today. He was commenting on a Whangarei report that 10 per cent of third formers needed special instruction, while several had to use primer-type blocks to learn to count Mr Horsfall said there had been no deterioration in standards of primary school leavers, although inspectors were never complacent about it A new syllabus in arithmetic which had already been established in the infants was being extended this year to standard 1.
Ten per cent of children were of a poor academic standard and would probably never sit School Certificate.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 3
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