SECONDARY EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 7

SECONDARY EDUCATION

OPPORTUNITIES POINTED OUT, (ir mtoiurii—spsmL to thi post.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The results of the second years' working of the Boys' Gordon Hall (in conjunction with the educational authorities) with regard to the boys leaving the primary schools are of some interest. About April, 1913, enquiries were instituted in connection with some 308 boys who had left the primary schools iti December of the previous year, and it was found thnt 36.7 per cent, had continued on at secondary schools, while 63.3 per cent, had gone straight to work in December, 1913. • The boys' work director visited some twenty-five primary schools in the district, and gave the sixth standard boys who were about to leave a seven-minute talk on the advantage of secondary education. The boys filled in a card giving name and address, and stating whether tlley expected to attend a^secondary Bchool or go straight to work. The parents of the majority of the boys who were undecided, and those who expected to go straight^ to work, were interviewed. The benefits of a secondary education were pointed out, with the result that 45.2 per cent of boys continued on at secondary schools, and 54.8 per cent, went to work. This shows an increase of 8.5 1 per cent, for the schools, and seems to prove that parents and boys only need to bo told of the opportunities that there are for secondary education in order to take advantage of them.