SCHOOL HOURS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1924, Page 9

SCHOOL HOURS

WET WEATHEB REGULATIONS.

Protests against the amended regulations of the Education Department governing the present practice of closing schools at 1 p.m. oh wet days were passed at the householders' meetings at Brooklyn, Petone, and Eastern Hutt last evening. The stipulation made'by tlie Department that a school day must consist of at least four hours,' two in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, and thai, accordingly children must be marked as absent on wet'afternoons, did not /meet with tho approval of the Te Aro" School Committee. /•' The. retiring chairman, Mr..L. Hennessey, reported to the householders lait ' eevning tliat-the committee had, by for--roal resolution, instructed the headmaster not ,to bring children back t6 sdiool on very .wet afternoons, since it was the opinion of the members that children's health should not be so risked by.having them sitting; down for two hours in wet clothes. : How the four hundred half days insisted upon by the Department could be made op he did not know. .■:-,./■' ' ■'■' The headmaster, Mr. A. M'Kenzie, pointed out thai another regulation provided that there must be-'van interval of "at least one hour between morning and afternoon school work; "so"'"that, the' committee, escaping one prong, had been : caught on the other. '