Featherston School.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1735, 18 September 1885, Page 2

Featherston School.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sib, —As no one seems to consider himself sufficiently interested iu the late controversy to take the subject up, I. as a looker on, and with the desire of benefiting parents and doing away with the serfdom, (I can give it no other name), at present exercised by Government schoolmasters, shall be obliged if you will find space in your columns to give the following publicity. The parents of the boy who was chastised wrongfully at the Feathereton Soh 001. naturally wishing to give their child a good education, and finding that under the treatment ha waa receiving from an unacrupuloua mistress, backed up by still more unscrupulous members of the Committee, have been forced to send their boy to Eketahnna at considerable expense, although at the eame time having to pay their rates here. Had the enquiry been allowed to be carried through, as in justice to all parents it should have been, in all probability the error* in the mode of tuition or some change might have eventuated, whereas as matters now stand, a parent forced by Act of Parliament to educate his child, is to be subservient to the caprices of any school master or mistress who chooses to make a favorite of any of her or his. pupils, indiscriminately punishing those who do not suit their fancy. Having carefully read through the letter which was published in the Star, I fail to see why the ex-local milkman, (whoever he is), and aothor member of the committee could have been allowed to influence the other i members. There must be a screw loose i somewhere.

I am. Ac., John H. McLknnab