Call For Report On Deprived Areas
(New Zetland tress Association)
WELLINGTON, May 14. A more positive approach to the education of children from multi-racial and socially deprived areas was urged at the New Zealand Educational Institute’s annual meeting today.
A remit before the meeting called on the institute to set up an educational research project to report on the problem, which Mr H. M. Hunter described as “the most serious facing. New Zealand education today. “In areas such as Porirua East and the Auckland suburb of Otara the situation is deteriorating rapidly,” be said. Mr H. H- Meek, of Papatoetoe, said: “Where the Government won’t face these issues realistically the Institute should.
“In the homes, language is used sparingly to discipline the children or as abuse between adults. “Every bottle is brown and the only reading is comics or ‘Bestbets.’ “There are few community leaders and the schools are staffed by inexperienced teachers. In one area, with a population of 21,000, there are 250 homes each with only one parent “The first school of three classes opened in this area in 1961, Today it has seven grade 7 primary achools." The remit was adopted unanimously.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 8
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