The Featherston School and the Education Board

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1892, 4 October 1886, Page 2

The Featherston School and the Education Board

To the Editor of the Standard. " For ways that ate dark and fur trieka that are mean, The Education Board of W<l'ingt>n ia peculiar.” Sib,—l am led to quote the above remark# through a circumstance that haa lately occurred in our little township, re the appointment of an assistant in tbs Faatherston Soboel vice Misa Medley resigned. Tbs Local Committee, at s meeting held on the 25th nltimo, passed a revolution recommending an appointment temporarily, until a regular assistant should he obtained, and forwarded a copy of it to the Education Board. At their meeting laat Wednesday it appears the letter was not brought before the Board's notice, or, at any rate, not taken into consideration, and the result wee the appointment of e young girl of 16 years of age, (who has had no previous experience with infant teaching) |beiag appointed te take the infant class of an average attendance of about 68 children on the book*, Mow, Sir, I ask, Why is this thus ? or in the words of the poet quoted above, Can sneh things be ? For the last six years the infant class has been a speciality of the Fcatherston School, and both by Mr Huntley and Miss Medley, haa been brought to end kept in a high state of perfection, and after all this trouble the class is handed over to an inexperienced girl, who can exercise no control over them. A few weeks, or even days, will soon show this statement to be correct. If the recommendations of school committees are to have no effect, end their communications are to bo consigned to the waste paper basket, the sooner they cease to exist as a body the better. It now remains for (hem end the parents to take some decided action, and prevent the .stains of onr school being lowered by the appointment of a teseher totally unqualified (or the position. 1 am, Ac., Fut Justitu.