THE DISAPPOINTED GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 7

THE DISAPPOINTED GIRLS

TO IHE EDITOR.

Sir, —I have been following up the correspondence relative to the Wellington Girls' College with great interest and entire sympathy. My own young daughter has, for some months past, been looking forward to the time when she would be entitled to membership as a student at the college, and to this end she has worked hard at the primary school endeavouring to gain, with as much credit as possible, her certificate of proficiency—that being -the qualifying examination for her entrance into the college as a secondary scholar. Now, after '"gaining that certificate and after all arrangements have been made for her to attend the- school, she is told "there is no more room."

It ia hard, nay, it is cruel, for a child who has worked hard for her prize to be told that after being fully entitled to it, "there is no more room." We elder people can hardly imagine the children's great disappointment, and I am sure, if only the directors would endeavour to put themselves ip the children's place and sea things from the children's point of view, even for a few minutes, they wdul4 understand' what we parents are doing our very best to make them understand—that tho -whole thing is terribly unfair. Surely some agreement can be arrived at whereby our children can be given that chance in life, to ivhich, by their own endeavours, they are fully entitled. It seems incredible tuat a'public school, presumably built for the secondary education of our young people, should have to close- its doors on these same young people, for want of "room." It is hardly fair on the few left out to continually meet with their old class mates, see them wearing the colours which for months past it has been their own aim to wear, and yet to know that through no fault of their own they have been, barred from wearing them—that it is their lot to staiid aside and. worship from afar.

I sincerely hope that., at tho coming meeting, the directors will come to some understanding whereby our girls will bo enabled, after all, to enter the college, and once again be on the same footing as their old class mates, who have had the good fortune, to gain their entrance without having to encounter the obstacles and disappointments meted out to : " tho few."—l am, etc., GEORGE R. .ROGERS, i 16th February.