TEACHING BY POST

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2587, 3 December 1931, Page 8

TEACHING BY POST

GOOD RESULTS OBTAINED “From the very large number of appreciative letters that are received from parents there is no doubt that correspondence school tuition is very popular with the great majority of parents whose, children are taught in this way,” states a circular addresed by the Director of Education, Mr T. B. Strong, to secretaries of Education Boards concerning the department’s course for children in isolated country districts. “Very few of the pupils fail to make satisfactory progress and only a few parents appear to find the supervision troublesome,” the letter added: “It often happens, indeed, that parents who are themselves not well educated take a great interest in the work, and their children mak> highly satisfactory progress.” The Auckland Education Board noted the recommendation that all children who are taught in very small grade O schools, where at present nearly 70 per cent, of the teachers are uncertificated, should be enrolled in the correspondence school.