SCHOOL ENTRY AGE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 9

SCHOOL ENTRY AGE.

Auckland T eachers’ Reply to Minister. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 14. “A prolonged controversy will serve nc good purpose, but we shall continue to further the cause of the child and its primary education as well as the interests of the teachers, acting as they do interdependently,” say Auckland headmasters in their final statement in reply to the Hon R. Masters on the subject of the school entrance age controversy. The teachers say that the public are crying out for small children’s admission to schools, that the welfare of the schools is being seriously affected by the continuous transfers of teachers, and that a great majority of the children must suffer a serious loss of schooling because of the present law, which is most undesirable interference with a splendid system of primary education. The teachers also protest against the “ uncalled-for slur ” cast on teachers by the Minister. They believe that no body is better able to judge the needs of the situation than the headmasters, who must be above suspicion as to their motives. They trust that the Minister will admit their sincerity in the matter and acknowledge their claims on behalf of the children.