PRINT SCRIPT QUESTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18889, 11 December 1924, Page 11

PRINT SCRIPT QUESTION.

" SHOULD NOT BE TAUGHT."

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' VIEWS.

The teaching of print script to the neglect of cursive writing in the primary schools was considered at the meeting of the Primary Schools Committees' Association last evening.

The question was introduced by a letter from tho Tangitu School Committee, which sought a ruling in tho matter. The chairman, Mr. A. A. Piesse, said that evidently tho matter was left to the discretion of teachers in. tho different schools. Whatever the method every child should b3 taught writing. If on the other hand the teaching of print script was going to help cursive writing later on allowed in the Training College, allowed in the Training College. Mr. G. Brownlie, a member of tho Education Board, said that unfortunately there was nothing in the departmental regulations to compel a school teacher to teach writing. In some schools writing was not being taught at all. The print script was of no use to a boy or girl when he or she went out into life. On that account it should not bo taught in the schools.

Mr. J. Mars considered it was interfering toe much with the teacher and his teaching methods. Another delegate asked what was the result when banks and post offices wished to know what the signatures were? It wr.s decided that the question be remitted to the Education Board for iurther discussion.