The Greytown School.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2017, 14 January 1887, Page 2

The Greytown School.

To the Editor oj' the Standard. Sib,— ln reply to a letter in Wednesday'* issue of the Standabd, signed •• School Teacher," I should be better pleased to reply if I knew hi* name, tor I consider such a bright luminary ought not to hide hi* light under the proverbial bushel. No wonder our young New Zealanders, “ especially in the Grey town District," progress backward. When a man in the position of teacher sit* down and writes such a paltry account of Mr Porritt’s defence ; when the defence really was not worth the paper it was written on. Now, sir, I consider any man carefully going f through Mr P’s defence will find that the Inspector’s report of a flying visit to the school can have no weight with regard to the real teaching of the school. The Inspector comes into the school; stays, possibly three or four hours, and finds the children very at* tenure. While he is there he looks around the buildings and fences, ha* dinner with the head master (possibly); pats the headmaster on the back, saying, •• He’s a jolly good fellow gives him a flattering report, and goes home thinking no more about it. But when it comes to the Inspector’s annual examination the case is vastly different, as that report has to come before the public ; it is then that the actual condition of tbe schosl is found out; after two or three days’ careful examination then is the time the teaching power is found out, and not by the paltry report of a hying visit. With regard to the I letter referred to and my own action in the I matter I leave the householders tojudge, not | a paltry " teacher." Now, Hr Teacher, a

word of idtjß: Oe4 bo* into your shad y do not leave lha school door* ; you uty do yourself an Injury. Leave the people that are not “ Teachers ’’ to judge for thsmseivea. Do not poke yoot note into other people'! business, yon may get it pulled. Keep quiet, there’s a good soul, and above everything tea that yon, as a " teacher,” get good results lot the particular school yon represent, which we hope is not in the Greytown district. Do not go into politics, you will spoil yauras 111 Apologising for trespassing on your spsee as (sr. I am, *e., P. Corns, don. Greytown, Jan. 12.