EDUCATION OF GIRLS

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14255, 5 January 1920, Page 5

EDUCATION OF GIRLS

HEALTH, MORALS AND MANNERS. N.Z. INSTITUTE'S PROPOSAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) -WELLINGTON, Saturday. The question of introducing a course of instruction for girls at school, with special attention to health, morals, and manners, was considered at the conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute to-day. Miss A. E. Chaplin (Canterbury) introduced a remit, "That in any large school, grade 5 and upward, the responsibilities of the senior class mistress shall include: (1) Special attention to the health, morals, and manners of girls; (21 the general supervision and teaching of a corrected course of lessons in elementary physiology and hygiene; and (3) the general oversight of all matters which specially affect the welfare of girls. It was suggested that such a mistress should have a status and salary equal to that of the infant mistress." The main point made by' the mover and Miss M. Smith (Canterbury), who seconded the motion, was that no one but a woman teacher was able to exert the steadying influence essential to the future welfare of girls, and that special subjects could only be taught to girls by a woman teacher. After discussion, Mr Garry (HawklT's Bay) moved that "senior class mistresses,' and that the words after 'the , welfare of girls' be deleted." i The motion was carried in this form.