SCHOOL ENTRY AGE
SUGGESTION BY TEACHERS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday
The suggestion that children should enter school according to their mental development Instead of according to ages was embodied In a remit submitted to the annual meeting of the Women Teachers’ Association this morning by Taranaki delegates. In proposing the remit, Mrs Ruff said many children of 6 years of age perhaps varied from 4J to 7 years in mental development. Miss Sutherland (Masterton) asked who was to apply the test. Children would have to be* tested according to a Dominion standard, and few infant teachers had sufficient know-ledge of psychology to be able to make such examination. The remit was defeated.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18946, 16 May 1933, Page 5
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