GREY MAIN SCHOOL.

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1931, Page 2

GREY MAIN SCHOOL.

[TO the editor.] Sir, —Some twelve months ago a request was made to the Education Department for rooms to be built at the Grey Main School to relieve the overcrowding in the Infant Department. If I. remember rightly, the Department decided to build at the Technical School and transfer Standard 6 there from the Grey Main School. This it is considered would relieve the position in the Infant rooms. Is it true that at-present there are 130 or more infants in the Grey Main School crowded into two rooms? Is that fair to either children or teachers? If Standard 6 is not transferred will the Department build rooms at the Main School to accommodate these infants? Again, is it fair to sacrifice these 130 infants just ready to taste the delights of school, in order to keep the capitation on 60 children who have already had six or seven years of what we older people are wont to look back on as the best days of our lives. — Yours etc., PARENT. In answer to our inquiry, Mr Dorking, headmaster, stated that the number of infants in the two rooms is as mentioned by our correspondent.— Ed. “Star.”