SCHOOL STARTING AGE
HEADMASTER’S VIEWS. “BHOULID BEGIN AT FIVE.” Mr. C. L. Henry, headmaster of the Lismore Rural School, New South Wales, appealed to parents recently to send their children to school at five years of age, instead of taking advantage of the Education Department regulation, which provides that a child need not attend school until it is seven years of ago. He said that failure to send children to school at five years of age usually resulted in a child being
forced to associate with younger girls and boys, and frequently led to a feeling of mental inferiority. “Promotion is not made according to age,” said Mr. Henry, “but is governed solely by mental ability. Children who are not out of the infants-’ department by the time they reach eight and a-half years of age are regarded as being over-aged Every school has a number of these children, and a big proportion of them are boys and girls who did not begin their schooling until they were seven.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 218, 14 September 1934, Page 6
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