TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 81, 14 March 1931, Page 5

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ATTENDANCE BAROMETER AT S.T.H.S. NOW AT. T.HE'PEAK The principal the Stratford Technical High School (Mr. A. H. R. Amess) stated at the Board of Governors' monthly meeting last night that the attendance this year compared to last year was very much the same. There were 314 pupils last year and 310 this year. The population in the country has not changed very much during the last ten years, remarked Mr. E. S. Rutherfurd. The chairman (Mr. Harold Trimble) said there was the question of children attending the secondary school now. Mr. Rutherfurd: .-It depends upon understanding the importance of an agricultural bias ana* sending the children to a technical school. But the people are beginning to realise that the young people must go on to the land more than in the past. The chairman said he did not know whether the position worked that way now. He thought the idea existed largely that when a lad was going to be a farmer there was no necessity to go to the technical school at all. He was yery sorry that that should be so, though it seemed the farmers had that feeling. However, he thought that the numbers would increase as time went on, and more people would take advantage of the tuition at the school. Mr. Amess, in referring to the position of attendance of boys over the past ten years, said that the school started with lfiti, and there had been a slight increase every year until last year. lr It were not for the bad times he believed they would have had an increase. A few more pupils joined every year, and there was twice as many as when the school started. There had been a few more from the same population. The Primary School showed that the school population was very much the same. This year there was a little falling on! in the country pupils, and there was a compensating number in the town pupils. There had been a loss of ten country pupils and ten more joined from the town.