CONTROL OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20641, 13 August 1930, Page 8

CONTROL OF EDUCATION.

OPPOSITION TO CHANGE. SCHOOL COMMITTEE VIEWS. r/otest against changes in tho. education system, which would lead to centralisation of control in Wellington, is maie in a resolution passed at a meeting/of the Ponsonby district schools committee. deferring to the report of the Recess Committee on Education, the resolution states it is believed that any attempt to interfere with local administration, by decreasing rather than increasing the powers of education boards, would be a- retrograde step. The committee considers that such a policy would deprive committees of sympathy' and the prompt .attention received to reauests, and would detrimentally affect all local interest and enterprise in the cause of education.

i At a meeting ot the Richardson Road scliool committee, the following resolution v/as passed The committee is of the opinion that while the first part of the Recess Committee's report is highly commendable, the second part dealing with administration is not in the best, interests of education in New Zealand. , It is felt that the education boards as at present constituted function to advantage'and that by the centralisation ofiheir powers the local interest of school committees and householders would be lost."' ' The'following resolution was passed nt a meeting of the Epsom district school committee"The committee approves of the .control of primary, secondary and technical education being placed under one/ local board, but consioers that any curtailment of the powers of boards will detrimentally affect all local interest and enterprise and will be u serioiis discouragement to the valuable services now rendered by school committees and householders."