DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VX, Issue 7102, 26 January 1901, Page 2

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

The circular issued to Boards by the Secretary for Education outlines the regulations under which work is to be carried on. Secondary subjects are to be taught in separate classed, and by a teacher or teachers specially qualified to teach secondary subjects, and the rest of the school is to.be fully staffed as for any other public school with the same average attendance. Secondary pupils are to take arithmetic to a standard at least as high as that of the arithmetic for Standard VI., and they are also to take English, including the study of a work or works of some standard author, not less than 800 lines of poetry or 200 pages of prose. In addition to the statutory capitation there will be paid £2 for each pupil who has passed Standard VI. . and. is taking

three or more subjects of a list sec out resnto? NTO 1 "' W^ th d °*»<*™s fa Sw-t « u in , be P aid t0 each Dis. tnct High School having not less than twelve pupils who have pissed StandarS 11' a f e takln S three or more secondary classes, m addition to English and arithmetic. The whole of these allowances, which are to be paid qua*! ce eh c h* V 'i are , tO ü be Paid as claries t2 the school teachers, or in addition ♦« ° f ihßotheci hBothec teacher the° fh°a a t r th?^ determ J ne ' Ifc would seem that this finance is cast on a liberal scale, and it is believed that the number Wn" 1 "., 1 ! 1 attend Ha *em