THE SCHOOL AGE.
FARMERS’ APPROVAL. A REMIT THROWN OUT. (Special Reporter.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. A remit protesting against the raising of the school entrance age was rejected by the Auckland Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union today. Mr A. Martin, introducing the remit, said the raising of the school age would have the effect of penalising country schools with few pupils. These schools would be closed, and children would have to go miles to the nearest school. Correspondence courses would have to be resorted to. Mr S. N. Ziman (Cambridge) saw no harm in children being kept at home till they were six. Schools should not be nurseries. He sympathised with those Grade 0 schools which would be detrimentally affected. Air Brown (Alorrinsville), speaking as a teacher, expressed the opinion that tho raising of the school age would be advantageous, particularly in the towns. The little schools, however, should not be sacrificed.
Mr R. Barter (Hunua) disapproved of the remit, and said be was in favour of raising the age till seven years. He knew of cases where education was host applied after the children had reached that age. The remit was lost on a show of hands.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18640, 19 May 1932, Page 7
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