COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 8

COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

—— A LARGE NUMBER OF REQUESTS. (Br TELEGKArn.—PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.! V . Dunedin, Juno 3. . .At tho annual meeting ■of the Country School Committees' Association, the following resolutions were carried:— That the Government be urged to make more l adequate provision for tho payment of teachers in country districts, to hx a minimum salary, and to give increments for good service.' :•' n . ... , That, proper and adequate provision be mado for supplying teachers' residences with reasonable conveniences. That a better system of heating be provided in schools. . . That comfortable rooms be provided in schools for children to change wet garments and boots, and that thoy be furnished with separate lockers. ■ That tho Education Board bo recommended to defray in future tho full cost of painting and distemporing schools. ■ _ That tho Education Boards and tho committees,'from their local knowledge, are best qualified to mako provision for the conveyance of children. , That at the annual examination pupils obtaining proficiency certificates bo eligible for admission to secondary schools at the beginning of the following year, and that they be - entitled to two years' free tuition That tho attention of the Minister bo directed to tho'salaries and staffing of the district high schools, and that more liberal provision bo mado, also that district high schools bo under the control of Education travelling allowances bo paid to teachers'when shifting. ' That a Council of Education be establlSTha't in justice to country children a now method of allotting scholarships be promoted. , - . ~, That tho confereneo v.iews with concern a weakening of local interest owing to tho manner in which the central authority is assorting itself. That the attention of the Minister''for Education bo directed to tho fact that tho whole education system is viewed too imicli from tho standpoint'of city schools. That the schools of the Dominion should bo divided into two'divisions, city and rural, and that modification of tho classification of schools, 'of tho payment and promotion of teachers, of tho standards of education, and of-the inspection of schools is urgently required to do justice to rural schools, which, although they contain the vast majority of tho schools and the children, are made subordinate to city schools. 1