KAIKOKAI SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8112, 22 February 1888, Page 3

KAIKOKAI SCHOOL.

TO Till- KDITOII. t?i r?, —Tti your leader on the KniUorai case you put forth certain opinions with which I am sure the general public will cordially disagree.

1 —You say that school committees should have some voice in the appointment of the local teacher although the board is the best judge us to who lire suitable candidates. In answer to this 1 •,<-imhi respectfully a.4: why the local committee cannot be trusted with tho whole matter of i-lcctins a teacher. If school boards hi Scotland c-xi-rLi.se this prerogative are not tchool committees (junhTied to do the same

2. You cay that if a teacher loses the confidence of the i-ehocd (ii.itrict he should be removed, no matter bowhiyi lie mr.y stand iv the board's estimation. Now, if, ns you afiirrn, a committee thoiilJ have the right to veto the appointment of a teacher and alto to practically dismiss him

"however high he may stand in the board's estimation," where on earth is the use of a board at all ?

,'i. You say parents and committees are not airways able to iudge o! good or bad school work. You therefore"argue that boards should have the power of summarily dismissing a teacher after acquainting committees with their intentions and giving their reasons. This is a repetition of Sir It. Stout's famous definition of the w.ird 1: consult," and shows that Judge Williams' correction of that knightly blunder has not | ccen " made a note of." Parents and committee?, with the inspector's reports before them, and with their personal acquaintance of the children's progress, are the only judges fit to be recognised. It may be obfo>cationon my part, but a board seems to me one of those appendages, ornamented, perhaps, and billet-making, but perfectly useless.—l am, &c , Democrat. February 20 ;