THE SCHOOL AGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 4

THE SCHOOL AGE.

1 "EVASION OF THE LAW. ; V (By -Telegraph.—Special 'Correspondent.) Auckland, February 23. In submitting a "report : to , the ' . City Sohools Committee', last-..evening,\tlie headmaster, of. tho : Federal Streot/.School madßisoma.-oommehtidn the .-growing tendency to 1 r,emoTe,'oh}ld*en' from school at an oarfy'age. "I, should like to point lout," lie wrote, "a ■-' weak- spoke in the -system 'o£ transfer adopted by the Department. 'A certificate 'of transfer-is, for. instance, demanded "and : obtained. by a patent on behalf of a", child, and the. name', is re,moved from tho school roll. . That practically ronds the matter - in many instances, and-the. child i 6 not sent: to. another school, and Mi provisions of the Act. aro. evaded.: It".' appears desirable that provision should be mado for a portion of every transfer certificate to be signed by.the admitting, head ; teacher, and detached and forwarded , to • the teacher who issued; the transfer. There is a growing tendency, on the part of a 'seotion of tho community to remove their children from school before they are 14, or havb pafsed the standard of exomption, , and > send thorn to work. Should they be .discovered, tho fine im-posed-does not nearly "amount to the sum earned, and it pays to keep tho child •at work'in defiance of the law." It was decided to forward.this part 6f .the letter to tho Education Bureau.