Integration review urged
PA Wellington The Educational Institute called f.an. urgent review of private schools’ integration into the State system, at its annual conference in Wellington yesterday. The Wellington Education Board’s chairman, Mr C. Hesketh, condemned the Integration Act, and asked for no more integration until it v/as reviewed. Private schools, mostly Roman Catholic-run, were being advantaged by the act, he said. The act, intended to merge State and private
schools to provide unified education, had been widely supported, but after six years it was threatening State schools, delegates said. They said that it was not a matter of religion or philosophy, but a question of Government effort being directed away from State schools to the extent that their pupils were being disadvantaged. “It’s sheer economic waste,” one said. “Private schools won the battle and State schools lost the war.” “We cannot afford not to have a review.”
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