EDUCATION HARDSHIP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 6

EDUCATION HARDSHIP.

BACK-BLOCKS PUPILS. As a result of the stopping of boarding allowance for primary school children who live too far away from schools to attend daily from their homos, 70 pupils will be affocted in tho Wanganui Education Board area. At yesterday’s meeting of the board a letter was received from a settler who lived six miles away from the school which his two boys were attending. They were receiving boarding fees which allowed them to board near the school. The settler pointed out that to have tho boys taught at homo by his wife through correspondence lessons was impossible. The follow out the argument of cutting down expenses, correspondence lessons could be made to apply to the towns. All lmow what a storm of protest that would bring forth, yet the back-block settlers were in a far worse position than those living in the towns from the aspect of correspondence teaching. “Theoretically it is all rightn-prao-tically it is all wrong,” remarked the chairman, Mr E. F. Hemingway, referring to the correspondence system’s operation in the. back-blocks. The meeting was informed that the matter had been brought before the member of Parliament for the district as a special case of hardship, and was out of the hands of the board.