HIGH SCHOOL EVENING CLASSES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22618, 22 April 1948, Page 4

HIGH SCHOOL EVENING CLASSES

Sir.—ln his eagerness to rush to the defence of the younger evening students at the G.H.S., your correspondent •'Essy” rather misses the point of my original letter. He accuses me of insinuating that the younger students are ihieves and also of "passing the buck.” The remarks of the Rector to which I objected state inter alia, "These night class students are, many of them, well grown up, but just the same books and materials disappear." I took exception to these remarks, as I am a “well grown up accountancy student”. I can only speak for the accountancy classes but I still maintain that in the two and a half years that I have been attending at G.H.S., I have heard no complaints of losses from desks; neither has there been any comment on this matter from our lecturers. My point is this; Had there been any materials, books or equipment missed from the desks of the rooms we use we should have been informed of this. To let things go on without taking any action means that students using the rooms from which things have been missed are all under suspicion. I am not concerned with the other classes attending the school and they are perfectly able to speak for themselves Judging from his letter "Essy” appears to have more information than the rest of us on this matter. If this is so, I think he would be well advised to pass this on to the Rector as such information may be of assistance to him in his efforts to stop these losses. This is not a pleasant subject to have to discuss and none of us like to be under suspicion of dishonesty. Therefore it seems doubiy hard that the evening students should be asked to bear the brunt of this attack and have to carry the whole of the blame. REHAB. STUDENT. [This subject has been sufficiently ventilated in the correspondence column. Only official comment from a High School authority can now be considered. —Ed. Herald. |