HYDE SCHOOL MATTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11303, 22 December 1898, Page 3

HYDE SCHOOL MATTERS.

.'.'[ . 'TO. THE EDITOB. ......... Sir,—Many like myself: w^ll be glad of the clear statements of the.chairman of. the Hyde" School .Committee,' R; Boyd,. as givenl in,your issue of Thursday last respecting the complaints made against, the teacher by.certain, parents; whose children did not,.make" the progressI'desired. .'",.. .• .' .-.' ','■ j .Truth and justice ought ever to prevail;' .and though no._favourite of the said teacher myself,.on grounds outside school work, I. was really glad to,be saved from thejuncharitablp position into which I had begun,to'drift owing to the persistence of complainants',in their1 rights and his wrongs'in this matter of of' local education. '.■''■ ■•> Our neighbour has rights as .well as burr selves; and the future welfare of;the teacher in question may depend much on the conclusions drawn both by the Education Board and m"any school committees in the province from the1 correspondence and rumours that may' reach them from these Hyde complainants.1 It is a real gain therefore to air who- are interested, or may become-interested or 'concerned in the truth in this matter, to learn: from the records of the school itself, through the chairman of committee, that the coin-, plaints are. worse than baseless ; and that the ■ fault of the few failures complained of lies: entirely,with the parents themselves, who sent their children little more than half-time to' school.- Put.tho saddle on the right horse like- a ■ .. ': ■■'■■' -. .; ;;:.":" .;!; ■<■< :..::- December 19. '.., '~..• .-; .Briton. ..