GRADE 0 SCHOOLS
NO WHOLESALE CLOSING
MINISTER'S REFUTATION
Having had statements brought under his notice to the -effect that there is to bo wholesale closing of small country schools, tlio Minister of Education (the Hon. E. Masters) today .made the, following, statement in reply—
"It is not. intended that there should 1)0 any wholesale closing of small schools, but in a number of instances the only teacher procurable is an uncertificated girl with no training. The education of the pupils can bo carried on much more efficiently and, incidentally,.much more.economically, by means of the correspondence ,schuol." Grade O schools cost the country £14 us per head,, and the corlespontlcnce school can. do the work for about &6 per head. In a. number of instances it was found beneficial to the pupils to close- tho small school and convoy the children to a larger school. Before any school is closed the circumstances of the case will be carefully considered, and action will bo taken only where the result will bo, the provision of better education for the children."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 11
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177GRADE 0 SCHOOLS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 11
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