SCHOOL AGE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — Re tho exclusion of those who havo passed VI. A pnpil occasionally gets thoro at 12, and a good many before 13. I havo a very Btrong conviction that it will bo a mistako to exclude theso pupils. We shall havo dodging poronts keeping children away from examination in order that they may not pass, &o. I have already had such offers. Now why did not your Minister of Education rather exclude those over 15 ? By that ago all should bo cleared out of our schools. If objeotiou can bo taken to "mixed" schools — i.e., with boys and girls in tho nams classes — and some do object to such, how must that objection be intensifiod when we have girls of 16 and 17 (!) ronaaining i) school. On tho register of public schools in New Zealand in December, 1836, thore were 2190 over 15 years, and 1667 who had passed Standard VI. I know woll which of theso two sets of pupils I would exclude. Even although the capitation loss would bo considerably greater in the one case than in the other, I should not hesitate. Anothor viow-point is : Exclude all those who pass Standard VI. and you make the passing of it an undosirablo attainment to many pupils and parents ; whereas exclude whenever 15 is reached and you make tho power of Standard VI. a most desirable point to be gained. lam, *c., Q.E.D.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 153, 28 December 1887, Page 4
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240SCHOOL AGE. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 153, 28 December 1887, Page 4
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