JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1925, Page 5

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

MASTERTON LEFT OUT. DEPARTMENT TO BE APPROACHED. A recommendation was made by the Academic Committee to the Wairarapa High School Board yesterday that the Board apply to the Education Department for the establishment of a junior high school in Masterton.

Mrs T. B. Barrer said that the Minister had promised that Masterton would be one of the first to have a junior high school, but nothing more had been heard of it. Such a school would be a great benefit, as the pupils began to specialise earlier and to find their forte in life.

The chairman (Dr. G. H. Scholefield) said that Dr. Uttley (Principal) at first had not been in favour of the proposal, but was now strongly in favour of it.

Mrs Barrer said that the junior high school would take away the fifth and sixth standards from the primary schools, and the pupils began their secondary education early, thus being farther advanced on entering the high school.

Mr A. Donald thought the system a fine one, but there should be a separate school building. The primary school teachers would fight it. Mr Jordan said that the teachers would be reclassified into the junior high school and would have no reason to oppose it. The recommendation was adopted.