To the Editor of The Colonist.
Sic, —Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to state a few facts for the enlightment of your correspondent " Arvensis." Out of ninety-four scholars ■ afc'ending Upper Moutere School, only fifteen are English, and these mostly beginners ; of the fifteen children over twelve years of age, one is English, and has been to school twenty-four days in her life, the rest are Germaus, and their average attendance for the past year was seventy-two days, and these not consecutively, but at long intervals.
The German children have had to learn the English language at school, and they seldom hear it elsewhere.
"Arvensis" will perhaps say the average attendance (forty-eight) is good, hence the results should be better; but, if he will take the trouble to examine my daily register, he will find the numbers are not kept up by the same children. With these drawbacks, I would ask "Arvensis" what great proficiency he expects ? I trust he (" Arvensis") will, in future, defer judgment until he has made himself acquainted with the circumstances of the case.
W. Cook, Teacher, Upper Moutere School. August SOth, 1869.
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1216, 3 September 1869, Page 3
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