SCHOOL BOOKS.
TO THE EDITOR. c lß __\Vc are told that the State school authorities take care .that unnecessary expenditure in books is carefully avoided. Would it not be a good thing that the secondary schools, high schools included, should practise the same economy.' l Helpparents arc loaded every year with a formidable list of new books, some of them costing as much as 7s 6d or 8s each; and endless books are discarded by the teachers, sometimes it seems from mere caprice, sometimes because there is a new teacher, sometimes because failures at that particular school have been unpleasantly common. As a parent I have noticed that the more incompetent the teaching the more books are piled on to the unhappy pupil But what the heads of the schools seem to ignore is that the real sufferer is not their little friend who rushes to the bookseller with a list ns compendious ns Everyman's Library but Suffering Parent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20023, 14 February 1927, Page 12
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159SCHOOL BOOKS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20023, 14 February 1927, Page 12
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