SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 11

SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS

COMMISSION’S PROPOSALS

BOARD’S STRONG OPPOSITION.

OBJECTIONS TO JOINT CONTROL.

By Telegraph.—Prasa Association. Palmerston N., Last Night.

The Palmerston North High School Board this afternoon carried a resolution to the effect that the proposed scheme of joint administration of primary and secondary schools is not in the best interests of education for the reason that the administrative requirements of secondary schools are different from those of primary schools and separate administration tends to greater efficiency. The board considers the suggestion that a separate council should administer each school retrograde, and the effect would be to. lower the status of secondary school administration to that of the school committee.

Joint administration of the two high schools and the: technical; school at Palmerston North has proved highly successful and economical and could well be copied. The board also considers that the appointment of teachers to. secondary schools should be left in the hands of the hiffh school boards and that the suggestion to place headmasters in secretarial positions is basically unsound' and those positions should be left to men of commercial experience.