BACKBLOCKS CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 41, 17 August 1921, Page 5

BACKBLOCKS CHILDREN

CORRESPONDENCE COURSES.

The effort to meet the educational needs of children in the backblocks was detailed in a letter received at to-day's meeting of the Education Board from the Director of Education. "The Department," it was' stated, "is prepared to arrange for correspondence classes in primary school subjects for children who are living in districts where no school is accessible. Such classes-have proved highly successful in Victoria, and, if a sufficient nvjmber of applications is received, a special teacher will be appointed to conduct the instruction. The Department desires that the board jvill insert an advertisement in papers likely to reach residents in the far back districts asking for applications to-be sent in by parents desiring instruction of this kind for theii-j children." Parents would need to apply to the secretary of the Education Board for forms and information regarding a system of giving instruction to children, by correspondence. This system ,had proved highly satisfactory elsewhere. Mr. W. T. Grundy stat. cd' that he had been informed of the success of such instruction in Australia. He was wholly in favour of the proposal. '.