JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.
To the Editor. * Dear Sir, —When the Junior High Schools start, parents would rather they were attached to the primary day schools than to the High Schools, which lead to the Universities. What ordinary people want is a Junior High School for the smarter pupils of the ordinary day school, to prepare them later for the technical, trades and farm schools. These Junior High Schools should have experimental plots and grow vegetables, etc., as with potatoes and onions about a penny each, every girl or boy could put in early kidney potaoes in October or September—even if living only on a quarter acre section. Hundreds of children- ten years old don't know the difference between late and early potatoes. One is as easy to grow as the other. Let the Junior High School teach everyday useful common-sense learning, not classics.—l am, etc., JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 11
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