JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 91, 17 April 1929, Page 7

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

TRAINING OF TEACHERS [ Per Press Association. ] INVERCARGILL, April 16. With regard to Air Stewart’s repeated claim that junior high school teachers aie well trained and highly qualified primary teachers Air A. G. Butcher has replied; “If this ig so it would seem to be no justification whatever for the proposed compulsory mass transference of Standards V, and VI. together with their experienced teachers from the admittedly efficient primary organisation to a secondary organisation which all reports united in condemning as in urgent need of drastic reform. The present unsatisfactory organisation of the secondary schools and lack of professionally trained secondary teachers is not quite so much outside the question as Air Stewart alleged, but is decidedly relevant to it. Air Frank Tate went so far as Io say unequivocally that “the aim of tiTe junior high school cannot be realised until there is a revolutionary change in the training of post-primary teachers and until a new method and a new spirit were in. evidence in. the schools-”