AKAROA PUBLIC SCHOOL.
To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail. Dear Mb Editob,—Would-ycju be kind enough to allow me, through thY medium of your valuable columns, to enter a most emphatic -objection to the way in which my children are being taught at the above school. When I say taught, I mean what they are aie supposed to go there for. As for learning anything, it is completely out of the question ; for, although they have been attending the school for the past two years, they know no more now than the first day they went there. Did I - not endeavor to give, them a little private tuition myself ef an evening they would be regular dunces. The master seems to be veiy neglectful in regard to bringing the children forward, and deals out his knowledge most gingerly. If I was in .a position, I would not send ,my chijdiren to the school again. While at school the children's time is spent in play, and thsir teacher (a boy about 12 or 13) encourages them in it. The Kindergarten system may be all very well for new "but I fail to see the reason why children are put back from the second and third class into that room when the inspector-is expected to visit the school. It seems that the master is afraid to allow his own actions to be made transparent: If the children are worthy to be in a certain class all the year round, surely they are just as worthy when the Inspector- arrives to be in the same position.. Another matter that I have to complain about is the way in which poor little babies (four * and five years old) are caned for not knowing their lessons. I think they should ' first" be taught their alphabet, "and then if they prove fieglectfhl or "stupid, punish them I accordingly. It discourages children very ! much when the cane is used for every little (so-called) offence, I think a different method of. punishment might be adopted in the cases of children i'sb very young. 1 have been asked by other mothers of families to sign a petition to the Board of Education, praying for the master's removal, but I am averse to adopting such extreme measures. I would beg to recommend the Akaroa School Committee to make enquiries into-the-matter, and endeavor to get the existing state of things altered, otherwise I for one 1 will not send my children to the public school again, and I believe a great many others will adopt the sanie course. . Apologising for troubling : you, I beg to remain, dear Mr Editor, , Yours, &c, MATER.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 342, 28 October 1879, Page 2
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441AKAROA PUBLIC SCHOOL. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 342, 28 October 1879, Page 2
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