’Penny-pinching’ deplored
Penny-pinching in education in the 1950 s and 1960 s was now showing up in children’s behaviour, said Mrs L. Stone, national president of the Parent Teachers’ Association, yesterday.
Politicians had to realise that children were New Zealand’s greatest asset, she said.
The continued misplacement of priorities and the failure to nurture children with a broadly based education could result in nothing but disaster.
Requests for a return of health checks in schools had been successful in some areas. The association hoped that this trend would not be muzzled by future spending cuts.
Mrs Stone criticised some members of Parliament as being too often “preoccupied with the god of materialism and petty, personal sniping.” “Education must keep pace with social change and development: there is no going back,” she said.
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