ESSAY TESTS

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

ESSAY TESTS

Should I go Straight Home? Many children replied to this question and showed that most of them realised that the wisest and right thing to do was to go straight home after school. As many replies as there is space for ■will be printed. The winners of the two prizes are as follows: Allan Elliott (7 years), Hurunui. Laurie Johns (9 years), Regent Street, Timaru. Two additional little gifts will be sent to: Lillian Hardy, Jackson’s, Otira Line. Lydia Laraman, Rakaia. OUR ANSWERS. I should go straight home from school, not play about the streets. I always go straight home from school because I am in such a hurry to tell mother that I have another stamp put in my book for correct spellings, and to show it to her. Then lam the first one to have something to eat and drink. Another reason why I should go straight home from school is because it is dangerous to play about streets, especially out here on the country roads, where the cars travel so fast. We may get run over. Another reason is, if anything goes wrong in the streets, we may all be blamed for it, even if we are innocent, because we were all playing there at the time. If another boy pointed at me and said, “ That boy did it,” and the policeman took me by the arm. how I would scream with fright and wish I had gone straight home instead of plajdng. The other boys could not have said that I did it, if I had been home at the time it happened. Another reason why I should go straight home is to take care of my clothes, and keep them nice for the next day. If I were home drawing on my slate, or painting for Aunt Hilda, I would not get so hot and tired. If I were playing in the streets I would be too hot, tired and hungry, and could not do my home lessons. Then I would be the duffer in my class, or be ill in bed. Allan Elliott (7 years). Hurunui. I must go straight home from school, as mother knows that 1 am all right then. If I stay and play on the road, I might get hurt or I might get run over. • Lots of children play on the roads and run backwards and forwards in front of cars and buses. Boys chasing balls across the road get excited and don’t look where they are going, and that is why there are so many accidents. I always cross the street between the white lines, and then I won’t get run over. We are taught safety drill at our school, and if we remember the advice we were taught, we will not get hurt. Laurie Johns (9 years). 15, Regent Street, Timaru.

As soon as the school bell has rung I take my bag and my bicycle and hurry straight home; not play about the streets or roads. Cars, or any traffic, may be very busy, and you might be hit by one of them, not killed, but perhaps injured for life. Mother may be very busy, and she would like little errands done for her. We have cows, and when father is busy Ido his little jobs for him. After I have done them. I have homework to do, also my little brothers to attend. Mother is very busy, cooking, cleaning, mending and patching clothes, so she expects us to hurry home from school to help her. If I don’t hurry home from school father cannot attend his work, and then we go to school without our shoes being mended, and mother has no time to sew or darn a dress for us. You get all this for not hurrying home from school, so it pays us all to hurry home from school, doesn’t it? Lillian Hardy. Jackson’s. ANOTHER GOOD ANSWER. If I were considering the matter of whether I shpuld go straight home from school or play about the streets, I should certainly go straight home. Playing in the streets is a bad habit to get into, and I am likely to get into bad company. If, when running across a street, a car should come along unexpectedly, I might easily be seriously injured or perhaps killed. Another reason is that if I roam the streets after school hours it gives my parents anxiety and worry. It is right to hurry home, so that I am able to help mother before teatime. Lydia Laraman (13yrs), Rakaia. Dear Aunt Hilda, —I should go straight home. It is useless to play about the streets when I could be home helping my mother. If I do play round the streets I know there’s trouble ahead. Olga Ward. Dear Auntie Hilda, —When I have finished school for the day I always go straight home and change my clothes and go messages for mother. I never play on the street, because it is too dangerous. When we lived in Worcester Street a little boy was knocked over, and was taken to the hospital, and it taught me a lesson never to play on the roads Lance GLanville. We should all go straight home from school and not play about the streets, because we may get into trouble sooner or later. Another time we may always be getting into the people's way, especially in the big cities, so we should all go straight home. Edna Kulsen (Kanieri).

I think the best thing to do is to come straight home from school. I think it best to come home, because if we play on the street we might get into mischief, or perhaps get run over. Lester Alexander (Redcliffs). I think it is best to come straight home from school, because if you don’t your mother will be worried and wondering where you are. v. Pat Alexander (Redcliffs).

I think it is best to come straight home from school because one day I was on the road and a motor-car ran over me. Joan Alexander (Redcliffs). I should go straight home from school because mother does not like me playing about the streets because she says that I would get too cheeky. Miria Leversedge (^ryndwr).