EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13910, 13 March 1909, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

A HEADMASTERS' PROTEST. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 13. The Public School Headmasters' Association has adopted a report protesting against the uses to which primary schools have been put for display purpuses. The report submits that teachers have been overworked by extra tasks, which have no proper place in the right education of youth, and some of the duties imposed on teachers on occasions of demonstrations are repugnant. As" a practical outcome of the Association's deliberationsit is hoped, concludes the report, that local bodies, the Government, Education Boards and entertaining committees on public occasions will cease making demands as a mere matter of course on (the pupils of public schools. The teachers should be free to withhold their assistance according as the occasion commends itself to them or not. No woman shotdd be expected at any time to undertake school duties outside the school grounds by way of spectacular displays.