HARSH REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3067, 1 May 1917, Page 8

HARSH REGULATIONS

HOW SCHOOLS ARE AFFECTED. In his report, Mr. J. B. Hopkirk, tho headmaster of Brooklyn Sohool, in his reference to tho attendance, stated last evening "that the average attendance required in 1916 to retain tho status of tho school for 1917 was 051 and over, but that actually obtained was 628. As tho average for one year governs tho number of teachers on the stafF for the next year, the board, compelled by tho Government regulations, will reduce' the staff by two pupil teachers."

The school attendance was affected by epidemics, and notwithstanding the fact that the school attendance this year was greater than last year the teaching staff was being reduced. The following resolution was passed: "That this meeting of Brooklyn householders, protests strongly against the Departmental regulations which compel tho Education Board to remove teachers from the school staff at a time when the school not only has recovered from the low attendance caused by a- year oC epidemics, .but has also a greatly increased attendance. It was resolved to send l copies of the resolution, to tho Minister of Education and the secretary of tho Education Board.