BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 6

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

PARENTS’ ADDRESSES WANTED. COMMITTEE’S REQUEST. ANTAGONISM FROM INSTITUTE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 5. The New Zealand Educational Institute has written to the Education Boards that the executive has been made aware that the Bible-in-Schbols League has asked the boards for permission to obtain from the school registers the names and addresses of parents for the purpose of issuing a circular or a voting paper and the boards are asked to give consideration to some reasons why permission should not be granted. The chief is that the information embodied in the register was given for school purposes and is to that extent confidential and it is not proper that it should be made possible for the private circumstances of individuals to become known to others through the school teachers who ought not to be placed in a position of having to give information for other than school purposes. It is stated that the granting of the request will form an undesirable precedent and further, apart from the principle involved, the information can only be obtained with considerable inquiry in the schools, families moving freely, and the addresses in the registers being far from correct.