LIMITED CLASSES
1 N.Z.E.I. HOLDS FIRM
BACKWARD. CHILDREN
The principle of the size of classes being limited to 35, and ultimately to 30, was reaffirmed by the annual meeting.of the New Zealand Educational Institute to-day. '
. Miss M. E. Magill (Wellington) said that with the withdrawal of additional assistants as ait economy measure the position was the same as it was ten years ago. They knew that real education was impossible under,the existing conditions, where there were sometimes classes of over sixty. Notwithstanding the- depression, the institute should n6t recede from the position it had always taken up. .
Discussing the question of educating unduly backward children,. Mr. F. A. Garry (Auckland) said that '> in his 'opinion the number in New • Zealand was increasing as a result of the growing complexities of the country's social conditions. He believed that the situation would have to be met by giving the children special consideration in the schools. It was a social question of considerable magnitude, and one that would have to be faced within the next.decade or two.
The following amended remit was carried: "That adequate provision be ma.de for the education of sub-normal and■ backward- children;" :
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 8
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193LIMITED CLASSES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 8
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