Control of Secondary and Primary Schools

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 6

Control of Secondary and Primary Schools

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OPINION. A special meeting of the Palmerston North High School Board of Governors was held yesterday to consider a letter received from the Auckland Grammar School Board criticising the Education Committee’s report. The following resolutions were passed: — “This board is of opinion that the proposed scheme of joint administration of primary and secondary schools is not in the best interests of education for the following reasons: (a) The administrative requirements of secondary schools aro entirely different from those of primary schools and separate administration tends to greater efficiency in each. (b) The suggestion that (under the District Board) a separate council should administer each school, is retrograde. The effort w r ould be to lower the status of secondary school administration to that now enjoyed by primary school committees and would result immediately in the loss of secondary school administration of all those at present interested in it. (c) The joint administration by one board of Boys and Girls High Schools and Technical School has in Palmerston North, proved highly successful and most economical. Tho introduction of a similar scheme of administration in other centres would not only effect very great economies but would result in a greater degree of efficiency in the control of secondary education.

(d) -That the appointment of teachers to secondary schools should be left in the hands of secondary school boards as at present. (e) That the suggestion to place headmasters in secretarial positions is basically unsound and the position should be held by men of commercial experience