CHRISTCHURCH ACID DROPS
BY ROBIN GOODFELLOW,
On Monday night the annual election of school Committees was held but m every district there was a singular lack of interest. It seems, and I do not wonder at it, that good men decline to be nominated for the thankless billet. Consequently year aftei year muddling busybodies compose the Committees ; such Committees are naturally treated with contempt by the not by any means all wise Board the teachers are harassed and worried and the children suffer. Men who scarcely know a B from a bulls foot are elected to boss the school. As the Committees elect the members of the Board it is hardly to be wondered at that the high sounding Board of Education is merely a collection of old women that spends a great portion of its time as a mutual admiration society. When will the people wake up and elect competent Committeemen who m their turn willhava lhe ability to choose competent members of the Board. There would be then some chance of avoiding some of the scandals with which we have been made so familiar during the past dozen years..
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Oxford Observer, Volume V, Issue V, 28 April 1894, Page 3
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