EXTENDING THE SCHOOL AGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 198, 16 May 1919, Page 3

EXTENDING THE SCHOOL AGE

COMPULSORY CONTINUATION CLASSES; NEW REGULATIONS The following regulations relating to the compulsory attendance of young persons at technical schools, continuation classes) or technical classes were gazetted. Inst night. These set forth: (a) All young persons who are resident within the school districts named in Part I of Schedule 1 hereto shall attend such continuation or technical classed as are provided for them for not less than four hours in each of thirty weeks between the days severally specified in Part I of Schedule I hereto for each school district in each year. (b) All boys over fourteen years of ago but not over seventeen years of age who are resident within the school districts named in Part II of Schedule I hereto shall attend such continuation or technical classes as are provided ! for them for not less than four hours in each of thirty weeks between tho days severally specified in Part II of Schedule I hereto for each school district in each year. (c) All young persons who are resident within the school districts named in Part 111 of Schedule I hereto shall attend 6uch continuation or technical classes as are provided for them for not less tlia.il two hours in each of thirty weeks between the days.severally specified in Part 111 of Schedule I hereto for each school district in each year: Provided that a boy who is undergoing military training in accordance with the regulations for the time being in force under the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, shall not be required to devote- more than six hours altogether in each week to military training and to attendance at classes under these regulation*. 2. The proceding regulations shall nut apply to any young person who— (a) Is shown to (jhe satisfaction of tho controlling authority of the technical school or classes to be under full-time instruction in the public school, technical high school, or other registered school i 01 (b)-Is shown to the satisfaction of tho controlling authority to be under suitable and regular instruction elsewhere for a number of hours: in each year, being not lees than the number of hours during which he would otherwise be required to attend the continuation or technical classes; or (C) Has gained an intermediate certificate or obtained a qualification that is recognised by the Minister of Education as equivalent thereto; or . (d) Holds a certificate of exemption under regulation 3 hereof. 3. (i) The director of the technical school or classes may issue a .certificate exempting any young person from attendance, in whole or in part, if he is satisfied that the said personfa) Is unable to attend "by reason of physical or mental infirmity; or (b) Is medically unfit to attend;.or (c) Is unable to ntteiul by reason of circumstances directly affecting the livelihood of the family of which lie is a member. # (ii)' The name of ■ every young person in respect of whom a certificate of exemption is issued, together with the reason- for the issue of euch certificate, ehall be noted by the director in the register referred to in • regulation C hereof. 4. The course of instruction shall be determined by the director of tho technical 6chool or classes as far as possible 'n accordance with the individual needs of tho pupil, with duo regard to the wishes of pnrents. 1 guardians, or employers of tho pupil, and to .tho crafts and'indnstrii'a practised in the district (including agriculture, if 60 practised, and the domestic arts), and shall in all cases include instruction in, English, including history and civics, and in personal hygiene nnd first aid, and where practicable, in the caso of girls, instruction in home nursing. Attention must also bo given to physical training where this is not otherwise nrovkieil for. 5. A young person shall bn deemed In be in attendance at a clasp if he is present at the time prescribed in tho regnlntion<; for mamtpl and technical instruction for the marking ■ of-tho• attendance register, and remains present until the closing of the class. 6. (a) The director of the technical school or classes shall keep a special register of all young persons residing witnin the school district to whom these regulations apply, and shall report to tho education board the names and addresses of young persons who. fail to attend elnsses regularly in accordance with these regulations. . . . ' . (l>) On receipt of such report the education board eliall take sucli action as it may deem necessary in accordance with the provisions of tho Education Act, 191+, and its amendments. 7. Every parent, guardian, arid tiuployer within any school district to which uieso regulations apply,- having under his control or in .hie, employment yoilng persons' to whom these regulations apply, shall forward the names and addresses of all isiicli young persons to the director of tho technical school or classes on or before the Ist d,iy of June, ,1919, and not later tifa'n the first Monday in, February in each succeeding year. Every employer in such school district shall also', within seven-days of tho date of employment, forward to the director of the technical 6chool or classes the nauTe of every young person to whom these regulation's apply who, enters his employment during the (yearly) period of compulsory aueuuauee at continuation or technical classes. 8. In any school district any parent or guardian, or the employer with-tho consent of parent or guardian, inav agree with the director of the technical school or' classes for any young person to whom these regulations do not otherwise apply to becomo a. compulsory student under these regulations. The regulations-apply to certain centres in the Auckland, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Canterbury, and 'lVanaki districts only. • '