LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TYPES OF SCHOOLS
Sir,—Our secondary school system has been in the public eye recently because of the changes in curriculum. I feel that there is another issue which could bear some discussion. We have m this country, the segregated school, the school in v/hich boys and girls are taught m the same building, but separately, and the mixed school.. Each of these provides a very different atmosphere for our adolescents. Out of my own experience of children attending all three types, I myself am completely convinced that the mixed school, with its staff of both men and women, is the right one for our children. It seems to me that the segregated school is as out of place now as the mixed school would have been in the last century, and that in accepting it, and continuing to accept it, we have merely been clinging to tradition. I do know that there are many others who are in a position to compare the types of school who are just as definitely in favour of the mixed school as I am. Is this a general opinion? If it is, the Education Department would be bound would it not, as part of the public service, to change its present policy. I think, t«o, that this is a case where the opinion of the younger half of the community should carry more weight. —I am, etc.,
A SOMEWHAT OLDER, PARENT.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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