EDUCATIONAL HIATUS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 16 May 1922, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL HIATUS.

THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Press Assn.—By Tel.—Copyright. WELLINGTON, May 15. At the women teachers’ conference, Mr Caughley, Director of Education, gave an address on the subject of Junior High Schools. He said that the idea was to take children after tue fourth standard, draft them to the Junior High School, whioh would be the connecting link between the primary school and the high school proper. By this means the child entering the high school would take new subjects more gradually. As to the differentiation between boys apd girls, the work would he started earlier; about three-fifths of the time would be devoted to the usual primary school curriculum, the other two-fifths to special subjects such as, in the case of girls, domestic science and other similar subjects. Half of the staff would 'oe comprised of men and half of women of equal status. Tlie women would be teaching the girls of the higher standards as well as the lower! One of these schools was to be opened in Auckland, where there was a building available, in July end two others will be opened in January. By that time it is hoped that teachers of all grades would have discussed the scheme, a copy of which would soon be in the hands of Ml teachers, and that the united council of all teaching associations would help to make a success of the scheme.

The first schools would be experimental, but .it was hoped that thev would soon be universal and would be under a proper scheme which would sup cessfully carry out the. work of education without the hiatus at present existing between primary and secondary schools.