Burnside Opposes School Proposal

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31539, 29 November 1967, Page 18

Burnside Opposes School Proposal

The proposal by the secondary department of the Christchurch Teachers’ College that a high school for forms three and four should be attached to its new buildings at Ham is not supported by the Burnside High School board of governors which, with the Riccarton board, was asked for views as the bodies chiefly affected.

The Christchurch Secondary Schools’ Council had sought these views before commenting on the Teachers’ College proposal. Mr A. F. Foley (Burnside) told the council last evening that his school would be happy to provide classes at Burnside with which secondary department college staff and students could work, but it opposed further “gragmentation”

Under the proposed scheme, Mr Foley said, a pupil would move from primary school to an intermediate school for two years, then to the Teachers’ College school for two years, and then to a full high school for his final two or three years, including school certificate and university entrance examinations.

This would be “most disturbing,” he said. Mr Foley said his board also thought parents would be unwilling to support such a new school. The council decided to await the Riccarton opinion.