TRUANT OFFICERS
DID WORK TOO WELL Schools have now become pleasant places for children, and the art of truancy has been lost. The need for attendance officers whose duties were to hunt up absent pupils has now ceased to exist. These arguments were used at a meeting of an education committee in Ayrshire (Scotland), to support a proposal that these officers should be abolished. An original motion was to the effect that the forty-five officers at pre- 1
sent employed should be reduced to ten, but" the opinion was expressed that it would be more efficient and economical to abolish them altogther. It was suggested that any hunting up required could be carried out by the school janitors. One member thought the step was too drastic, and said the irony of the situation was that these men had done their work so efficiently that they were to lose their jobs. The total saving is estimated at between £lO,OOO and .£ll,OOO a year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1932, Page 12
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162TRUANT OFFICERS Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1932, Page 12
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