ILLITERATE BOY
16, But Unable To Read, Write
(fti Z Press Association i AUCKLAND, May 4. The chairman of the Education Commission (Sir George Currie • today described as astonishing the case of an Auckland boy of nearly 16 who had to give up an apprenticeship because he could neither read nor write.
Although he had received a post-primary education he was completely illiterate, Mr E. W Braithwaite, a social worker in the field of child welfare, told the commission. The boy was keen to learn to read and write and attended a part-time school of hts own volition. There his teaching had to begin at the early primers’ level. The boy had Inst se vera l jobs and when his probationary period ended he was released from his apprenticeship.
“How did he get through the school system without being discovered?* Mr Braithwaite asked, "or If he was discovered, why vMisn’t something done about it?"
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 12
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154ILLITERATE BOY Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 12
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