EDUCATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 July 1924, Page 5

EDUCATION.

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) _ „ . TIMARU, July lo! Following a full discussion on the question of juniqr high schools at the conference of the South Island School Committees’ Association to-day, the following resolution was passed unanimously: “This representative gathering of delegates of school committees of the South Island strongly protests against the scheme of junior high schools, especially as projected for Oamaru, as being calculated to affect the primary' school system of the Dominion by reducing the grades of teachers, robbing primary schools of the tradition created by senior scholars in all sports and musical interests and the like, and making the extreme age of primary pupils not more than eleven years; and further, because it will reduce the primary system to the equivalent of a glorified kindergarten.” A deputation was appointed to wait on the Minister in connection wth the matter. The assocation also decided to ask the -department to expedite the training of dental nurses and the establishment of dental clinics at suitable centres; that all transfers of teachers take place at the end of the year; that- the former status of school committees be restored and that their tenure of office be two years.