AIDED SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 13

AIDED SCHOOLS

TO MEKT TIIK NEEDS 01? BACK COUNTK-γ SIiTTLEKS. "Tho problem of the education of the children growing up in. tho remote, parts of the district, especially the Marlboroiigh .Sounds," says tho annual report of tho Wellington Education lioa-d, "is one surrounded with jnuch difficulty. Thero aro over -10 of such, schools in tho district. Tho allowance of M per child does not under existing conditions securo tho services of a trained teacher; yot the interests of the child must bo safeguarded. Tho board urges a reconsideration of tho matter with si view to effective roraedy either—(l) by increase of the capitation to something approaching the capitation payable on account of secondary pupils, or (2), alternatively, to establish schools with living quarters to m«et the special needs of these romoto districts. As against the disadvantage of separation from their homes there is the positive advantage of tho intellectual stimulus of numbers, _ and also that of the more efficient training to bo obtained at the hands of a trained staff The provision for part-time schools does not here meet tho requirepents.