SCHOOLBOY'S GRAMMAR.
IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL. REMARKABLE DIFFERENCE. A story was told by Mr. D. F. Leckie, retiring president of the Southland branch of tho New Zealand Educational Institute, as a preface to his presidential address on the subject of "Co-operation between Home and School." It happened at a school in Taranaki, said Mr. Leckie, that an inspector was < paying a visit. He reached the gate of the school and there met a boy who was going home. The time was half an hour before the usual closing time and so the inspector asked the boy why" ho was out of school. "Because I done my English good," was the rather astonishing reply. The inspector went into the school and saw the boy's English papers. They showed that ho could write a splendid essay and was thoroughly proficient .n formal English, and yet, as soon as be was out of school, he uttered such a setitence as "I done my English good." That was a striking example of the lack of homo co-operation. Onco out of the school, the boy adopted the standard of speech which, prevailed in Ins home.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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191SCHOOLBOY'S GRAMMAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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