HIGH SCHOOL WANTED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13752, 3 February 1919, Page 4

HIGH SCHOOL WANTED.

Some time ago, when this paper was enthusiastically advocating a high school for Masterton, the few opponents of the scheme used as an argument that the present District High School fulfilled all the functions of a high school. We pointed out that such is not the ease, but these little-minded *''educationalists" told us wo were wrong. In a leading article on "District High. Schools" in Thursday's issue, the ■•Auckland Star" says:—"lt may be pointed out that these district high schools serve communities of a size between the small settlement and the country town. They are really ordinary primary schools with a seventh standard in which second ary subjects are taught. With the growth of the locality it sometimes becomes necessary to create a separate secondary school, and a High School, with, a board of governors, is set up. Such a secondary school, with its own staff, directed by a headmaster who gives his whole tiflie to secondary work, is naturally in a pisition to give better result:-: than a district high school. The fatter represents the only opportunity that many country children have of getting something more than a primary education, and the trouble that is often taken to get this higher instruction shows that it ia valued. It is inevitables that country children should not be so well situated as tlieir town cousins i.: , :. the matter of education, and particular care should be taken to redress the baiance as far as possible."

The Masterton opponents of a high school v/ill not relish, the Auckland statement that a district high school serves communities of a size between the small settlement and the country town. What a compliment to progressive Masterton!