A PARENT'S VIEW

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 7

A PARENT'S VIEW

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir, —As a parent, I wks clad to Bee (he lottor of "Hope Deferred" in your issue of 2nd August, and I agree with your other correspondents- that an inquiry along comrnousonse linos into our s> cei'dary school 'syllabus should be undertaken. I can vouch for the truth of the remarks of "Hope Deferred 1" about ■ examinations. They occupy too large a part, of the life of the secondary school young person. Indeed, thanke, to o 'drastic compulsory curriculum, my own j. iris havo had to abandon subjects for which they are naturally; adapted, in order to pass the examinations. After the examinations , aro over these subjects will be dropped, being of no use whatever to them in after life. More freedom might well be given to parents and teachers in the choice of subjects. . The Hon. C. t). Parr has stated that secondary education is more prevalent in New Zealand than in many other countries. If this is so, it h high time it was brought in line more with modern requirements. An enlightened secondary export in tho Education Department seems to bo needed. A wouinn of the right typo would certainly be an acquisition as far as the girls are concerned. Bjit in this ago of wire-pulling can we got hpr? —I am, etc.,

FLORA. M. FORDK.

Bth August.