MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16359, 1 October 1913, Page 7

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

A SCHOOL TEACHER’S GRIEVANCE. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON; September 30. A'deputation, from tho Headmasters’ Association waited on the Wellington Education Board tp-day, regarding the medical examination of school children. Mr W. T. Grundy .pointed out the position the medical , inspection had reached in tho schools. The inspection was' divided, into two narts, tho first being, principally concerned with the Aledical Officer, who appeared at intervals to examine certain children ; records of these examinations were kept. To that part tho teachers had no objection, but what- they wanted to bring under notice was the work that they (tho teachers) were required to do from the beginning of tho year. They now found that this examination took a very great deal of ‘time and trouble, and they wished the Board to take this into consideration. He (Air Grundy) had brought- some of tho cards that the teachers were expected to fill in. These cards eacli took from fifteen to twenty minutes to fill in, and, therefore, a teacher could only examine about four children an hour. .The Board would see that in a school with 700 or 800 children it took' a very great deal of time during the year to got through that examination, and in consequence the school work suffered. Other teachers spoke on similar linos, and tho Board referred the matter to the chairman and town members to prepare a report.