COUNTRY SCHOOLS
EDUCATIONAL DISABILITIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 3rd June.
Although £4,000,000 or more is now spent- by the State each year on education, the appeal to the Minister of Education to press for a special loan of from £2,000,000 to £3,000,000 to remove some of the existing educational disabilities is not without justification, judging from recent exposures in the Press of school conditions here and there. The ; fault is1 not that of the present Minister or that of his predecessor. Both are men of culture, with a broad outlook and a wide sympathy for the needs of the boys and girls who will be the men and the women of to-morrow. It is the old problem of a lack of funds. The case has been cited of a remote country school in which 45 boys and girls are being taught in a shed erected by their parents. Desks and seats, it is stated, arc made of boards resting on kerosene cases. It has also been stated recently that the only land attached to one of the country high schools provided exactly 11 square inches per child. Somebody with a kink for figures must have worked it. out. In a number of cases old gaols which happily had served their purpose have been converted into schools in New South Wales. It looks as though a few more of them could bo turned to the same beneficient use.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 9
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