SPECIAL CLASSES FOR BRIGHT SCHOLARS
HUNT FOR EXAMINATION SUCCESSES. ALLEGATION BY GORE RECTOR. f Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, March 21. A statement that in the bigger city schools the brightest entrants were formed into special classes and coached for University scholarships from the day they entered the school was made by the Rector of the Gore High School, Mr. E. H. W. Rountree. “There are still some people who are inclined to judge a school by its examination results,” he said. “How many of the great private schools, both in England and New Zealand, with all their advantages, attempt to justify their existence by examination results. A study of the lists will reveal that with very rare exceptions all the leading candidates for University scholarships are from the bigger city schools. These schols have a big new entry each year and from this big entry it is possible to choose 25 of the brigtest entrants. They become a special class coached from the day they enter the school with one object in view, the obtaining of a University scholarship.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8
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