ELMWOOD SCHOOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1922, Page 6

ELMWOOD SCHOOL

EXPULSION ujj A PULTL. (Special to the Star.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 17. The recent trouble ax the Elmwood Scimol, urioing out of the lisimssal oi a pupil icr inert, was luiioiuereU. at tne meet.ng oi me canterbiiiy Education noard to-day. rhe ionowing loiter was received from the Tralles and r.abour Council ; “At a meeting of the Canterbury Trades and .Labour Council, the following resolution was passed: ‘This Council urges the Board or Education to dispense with tho services of Mr. Sinclair, Headmaster of the Elmwood School, bvcause of the dismissal from his school and the degrading method adopted to a child ot tne under age of nine years. This Council is of opinion that the said headmaster has not kept himself up to date with modern knowledge of the child mind, and we think him incompetent for his position as a trainer of tho unfoldings minds of cnildren.’ ” Mr. John Jamieson : “Who do the Trades and Labour Council represent?” A member: “Not you or me.” Mr. Jamieson : “What have they to do with tho Elmwood School, and what have wc to no with tho Trades and Labour Councils? 1 move that the letter, bo received.” Mr. E. H. Andrews : “Wo have absolutely no power co dismiss a master in this way. Tho whole thing is absurd.” The motion to receive the letter was carried. The Appointments Committee reported as follows: “Letters were received from the headmaster, reporting the expuls'on of one of the pupils owing to theft. It was resolved that in expelling the child the headmaster acted within the powers conferred upon him by the Education Act, but that your committee is of opinion that in the interests of a child s future welfare any form of public expulsion in such cases is to bo deprecated.” Mr. Thompson said tho Education Act should bo amended, making it necessary for teachers to secure the sanction of a School Committee before expelling a pupil. The report was adopted.