Teaching Girls To Drink

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30930, 10 December 1965, Page 1

Teaching Girls To Drink

Miss M. I. Mullan, the headmistress at St. Margaret’s College, questioned the policy of teaching children to drink in a civilised way in her annual report last evening. She said she. wondered whether this policy was not in fact just teaching children to drink.

“The Parent-Teacher Association framed ita code for parties this year," said Miss Mullan, “iq response to a situation created , by presentday conditions and customs. I was interested and concerned recently to find that a group of senior girls considered that smoking was simply a cbUdish form of exMWHMim but that drinking was quite nil right” Miss Mullan said that the school staff had been made aware this year of more eases of flagrant breaking of rates, and of behaviour-not anticipated by the rules. DETECTIVE SYSTEM , -I do Mt think that tills in any way indicates an increase in hshaviawr proHenu, but

rather increased efficiency in the staff’s detective system,” she said-'

“However, we must take cognisance of the fact that girls do things nowadays which were not generally dime 20 years ago. Until last week the school rates included om like this: ’Girtemuxt Mt attract attention to themselves

by talking loudly in public, or by any unbecoming behaviour.’

“It has been found necessary to specify various types of unbecoming .bohavtenr. A staple iltatratiotk of this number « gins who bom driving licences."