PROGRESS SOUGHT
Education ‘Football’
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 20.
Investment in education was far too important to the socio-economic future of all New Zealanders to be made an annual political football match, the president of the New Zealand Parent-Teachers’ Association (Mr R. Hamilton) said today. “Surely it could be divorced from politics and become one of the few issues, apart from M.P.s’ salaries, on which all members of the House should reach unanimity for progress at all levels from preschool to university and adult education,” he said. The average New Zealand family, hard hit by rising costs in every direction, is getting sick and tired of having to raise funds for basic equipment and aids, and of receiving ’compulsory* voluntary levies to help harassed headmasters keep their schools afloat as going concerns under a so-called free system, but parents comply for the welfare of the children and for special projects.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 26
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