Is This Modern Education Today?
"He always swiped at the ball"; "Horsey . . . tore off down the road"; "Dunno"; "They . . . bagzed the pictures"; "It's a hang of a wet day"; "It was good and hot"; "The flicks and footy."
These are some extracts from "Our Street," a story which is appearing in the School Journal for Standards 111 and IV. The story is written by Mr Brian Sutton-Smith, a son of the former Chief Postmaster at Wellington and a 1948 nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship. Messages from Dunedur have stated that exception to the story has been taken by the National Council of Women, one member having objected to "slang" expressions, crude drawings, and bad grammar." A resolution that the council should uphold Dunedin headmasters in their critical attitude to the "Journal" was carried unanimously.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 5
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134Is This Modern Education Today? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 5
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