HEADMASTERS' VIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 13

HEADMASTERS' VIEW

JUBILEE PARADE

EDUGATION BOARD'S REGRET

*.•';''(By'. Telegraph—Pifesi. iVssooiatioii.) ' ";.;..' ''■'■'■■ '•-• /3i:■; :■ ; / :V; Following adiscustew>n in committed V on: the absence from jthfe ;JUbfl!?e parade , ,'•; of the '■primary .■■ school**pupils !'of; the city on May.6',* -the Educa- -'.. tion Board at its ineetkii today carried,- ':■■ the following resolutipo:— .;.%,CV;;^' | ■•\\JTChe board; reirets:pie;«ctiQ6 !i)D!f;,the' -A, headmasters of the In»*Tcargill schools,. in not giving the^Maycir pi Invercai^Hl and theCitizens' Comtaittee an oppor- -;;■■ tunityVof provid^ sWtaliiteoßrejnbniea . ' for' children bnVthe;-/ ''6ccwi6n"iiti-tne-' \ Jubilee celebrations ori ;|^y 6. "fend , I considers ; that - grave sSitcoufiesy yraiM'^^' shown .to >the -bbard it and \,'the oyic '... authorities."-;:^--.^ '£;..7-:-'-W-).,:-~ .; ":.' , A copy of the^lettertd the^^^btjard Was ; later obtained from :tfiie heidmajters, : who stated th^t the b<jard was wrpna in assuming that the ;Childreh of the ■ j town v schopb,; were. Kdeb'arriedV \ft6pi '?: \:~ taking part'; .on4Hw!< • i by ; 3 resolution fof ■.' the, Headmaste^ itt?^iatfa>n.:: \Thi»;4;:' i : decision not;to take part in- the paiiaa^ ':?.;- j:if :;it>iy^VhieldV;'--WM'i^icofcfe:;lto:-'it::;)Bh.- '.>',; informal meeUng or toMiheadtnasters, and^'w^as' merely^ aY:je4ffliteatipn:;'W: i ;»;:-'- v , decision arrived at some month*-ago ■: I solely !invthe .^ofithe,:childrf|n>>, ■:,/ They/ ■pointed -inity th«itLv-rioi! '^ypt ; {iHail'.';Vv>. one of the headmasters- concerned ■ 'receivedJia'requestsJlßr/the/pupilfipf ' ' his school to take p^rt In a procession, ihe^headmasteni.- ew^^?v:|heirSjmk;;. -~ : tude to parades in gemeral and stated that pupils should not jbe required *o stand for lengthy perfcds^ Long before the parade, in question the'headfmastere v-had;.v;end«vww^ .'.: .their pupils, ; and :that "was;;ttte Biajpr H : : reason why the -, : attemJunce of pupils : , I ;at. Anzac ;Day '-'paradei^/: wai :,■ v:; by ceremonies at indifidual schools. . The action b? the hea^taiasteis could : not■..■be^■'const^^l'(^^-•etoJ^;.as" 1 ■■.■flbuting ]', .; the board's1 vfish or! evefa indirectly i-Sof ; v ;'; <S sho\ying discourtesy:■ ; ,,'th6C llUj6rf*?', : )Y>;j-