CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8495, 16 May 1889, Page 3

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—-I believe the allowance made to school committees by the Education Board is supposed to csver the" cost of fuel. Whose fault is it then if there are no fires in our schools in this weather ?

To-day, when the hills around Dunedin were white with snow, the children in one of the largest schools in South Dunedin were sitting shivering with the cold. If it were a case of discomfort for one day only I would not think so much of it, but I believe there have been no fires in that school this winter. Who is to blame for this cruelty, for it is positively nothing short; of cruelty to Keep hundreds of children sitting still for four or five hours, without fires, in those great barus of rooms, in such wcathsr bs we havo had latelv ?

Does the fault lie with the teachers, or with the committee, f>r with the board? I can scarcely balieve that the teachers are so indifferent to the comfort of the pupils under their charge as not to have fires" if they are obtainable. In fact, one teacher who lives close to the school referred to was, I am told, humane enough to send home for some wood and coal, :«id a fire was thus obtained in one room; bat what about the unfortunate children who were turning white and blue in the ofchtr rooms.

If the board's allowance is sufficient to provide fuel, then it must ba either niggardliness or gross carelessness on the part of the committee nob to see that fires are provided during this weather. If the board's allowance is insufficient, the committee might have the goodness to tell us so, and we could then send our children to school carrying their fuel with them.—l am, &c, South Dunedin, May 15. Humanity.

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