SCRIPT WRITING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 September 1924, Page 9

SCRIPT WRITING.

QUALITY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

An official import on script writing in secondary schools states: “The experience of the secondary inspectors is that in the great majority of secondary schools a 4 reasonable amount of attention is paid to the qualify of the pupils’ handwriting. It is quite exceptional) to find slovenly or illegible, homework exercises. Written tests submitted by candidates for. senior free places have of late been uniformly .well ; set out and carefully written; in some schools tliis work has been excellent in style. “It must be borne in mind that the handwriting of most pupils in the first two years of a : secondary course is at a transition stage. Very few of them indeed jjentei* iwfcb a ‘formed!’ or cursive hand, and most of them write slowly, some even- laboriously. It is only natural that during.’the transition and until the pupil has acquired the style th-lksuits himubest some of the writing will not' bjei as perfect in form as when the pupil was at the primary school. More’writing is as a rule required of secondary than of primary pupils, and in some cases it must he admitted that the'' younger teachers have expected too much; front their pupils "within a given time;”