Featherston School Committee Meeting.
To the Editor of the Standard,
Sib, —There is an old saying that our Featherston larrikins would do well to remember “ It’s a dirty bird that fouls it is own nest.” A public school is not what one section of the community makes it, its success depends on the combined action of teachers, committee, parents and chil dren, and if any one of these fail to do their duty, the school will suffer more or less. Now its notorious, that the ringleaders in Monday evening’s farce, are fathers whose children do not regularly attend school, yet who would be the first to cry out at the incapa city of teachers if these same children failed to progress satisfactorily in their studies. These disgraces to tne name of parent will find that “ curses, like chickens, come home to roost,” and the ridicule they endeavored to cast on an excellent institution, which is second to none in the valley, will rebound and cover their own names with shame. I am, Ac, Featheistoniaw.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2062, 2 May 1887, Page 2
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174Featherston School Committee Meeting. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2062, 2 May 1887, Page 2
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