THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the Editor.
To the Eonoa. Sib, —Will you kindly allow me to ask the Chairman of the Borough School Committee, if he will cause the Inspeo- , tor’s late report on Standard 4, and referred to by your correspondent Air John Orr, to bo published.- • And,' iflfbtj’trill he state his reasons for N withholding the same 1 I would also like to intimate to the Committee that as the suppression of this report is an indication - that there is something radically wrong about the matter, it (is their duly to those whoa they represent, and to the parties more* immediately concerned, to see justice meted out without fear or favor, lam, etc.j Hodseholdbb.
Sir, —A.s a householder and a parent of one of the children attending the Borough School, I have been watching with others to see the Inspector’s report of his special* visit to examine the Fourth Staudard.ahd am surprised to find that this report is not to be published—in fact, the. Chairman or Committee refused to allow it to see the liglu. I can hardly, think it is (as he says) out of consideration for the head mistress that-it is kept back; otherwise, why allow the damaging insinuations, as reported in your contemporary, and his own bumptious and uncalled-for remarks and threats at last month’s meeting, or is it, Sir, ax 1 surmise, that the report puts the blame for'thn rr-ont diaorgaa-. ised state o|the. school on die -ight shoulders, but as this does not auic the Chairman and others the report is kept baok, and the head mistress made to be the scapegoat. . .
I would ask. Sir, is this manly or honorable on the part of the Chairman ? ' T regret to see that some of the members of of the Committee, from whom We have a right to expect better, endorse his action. I say, shame, on Mr G. H, St Hill and those of the Committee who support him. It is actions like this from office-seekers which make honorable men loathe to be in aay way connected with them in Committee or Council.—l am, etc,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1283, 18 June 1884, Page 2
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352THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1283, 18 June 1884, Page 2
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