A CYNICAL TEACHER.

Evening Star, Issue 8810, 27 April 1892, Page 2

A CYNICAL TEACHER.

MrC. Hulke, head-master of the Newtown (Wellington) School, in a letter to the outgoing Committee, complained of the irregular attendance of pupils, and added Avoidable absence ia seldom the fault of the children, but is nearly always the result of neglect of parental duties. There are too many parents who, if we may judge from their conduct, would willingly get rid of their children if the law would only permit them to do so. It is unfortunate for snob parents that they have been the means of bringing children into the world, for the burden of looking after the welfare of their offspring apparently sits too heavily on their shoulders. To me, who have long ago found out the world to be a seething mass of cant and humbug, personally it does not matter; but to young teachers, full of the hopes of life, the conduct of these parents is exceptionally ciuel. They may go to some Christian place of worship, but of the ethics of Christianity they cannot have the slightest knowledge, for the injunction ‘Do unto others as ye would men should do unto you ’ if, in their dealings with teachers, never complied with. Nothing tends to break young tsaohers down so much as irregular class attendance.”