School Inspectors.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6896, 7 February 1894, Page 3

School Inspectors.

♦ Wellington, to-day. — The School Inspectors' Conference resolved that examination m history as a class subject be discontinued, history books to be used only a9 supplementary reading books, the language of which, however, will have to be explained by the teacher. It was resolved that Inspectors would welcome with great pleasure any attempt on the part of the Legislature m the direction of substituting the decimal system of money weights and measures for the present anomalous but time-honored variety, which unnecessarily obstructs the progress of our children, makes the work of producing good calculators needlessly tedious, and stands m the way of improving the course of school instruction m other directions. The school inspectors' conference passed a resolution to the effect that it is desirable shat some knowledge of ambulance work and the method of restoring the apparently drowned should, if possible, be taught with science and object lessons. It was decided that children who fail to pass a standard and have made less than 250 attendances m the year be excepted. The conference strongly recommended the establishment m all schools of school libraries of books interesting to children, as a means of fostering a taste for reading. The following resolution was passed : " That arrangements be made for revising the classification of teachers on the same basis as the following, viz., That if for three years m succession the local inspector assigns to the teacher lower marks for efficiency than he has before received the Inspector-General of schools or another inspector acting as his deputy shall see the teacher's work and decide whether his marks of teachers' classification are to be lowered ky the Inspector-General or deputy.