JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL POLICY.
A statement that it was not intended to go on with any further junior high schoolg at present was made by the Minister of Education (the Hon. E. A. Wright) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon.
To carry out the system aa it should be carried out, and to provide junior high schools wherever they were being asked for, said the Minister, would involve" an annual expenditure of £100,----000 or £125,000, in addition to the present expenditure. At present they had thirty-three applications from various parts of the country. He was not complaining about the additional expenditure, but' there were many educationists who were of the opinion that they could achieve what was now being aimed at in, the junior high schools by an improvement of the primary schools, mainly by a redivision of the syllabus. In that. way it was thought that they could get the practical results that were being achieved by the junior high schools." Mr. J. A. Lee (Auckland East): "You are departing from the policy of your predecessor to some etxent?" Mr. Wright: "That may be." Mr. H. G. B. Mason (Eden): "Cutting out the publicity aspect?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 8
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