PUKEKOHE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 613, 4 March 1921, Page 5

PUKEKOHE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Sir, —The attitude adopted by the Technical High School Committee towards the boys and girls attending the Grammar Schools is, to all appearances, hostile. Ihe lettei addressed to tlie Board of Governors of the Grammar Schools, with the view of obtaining their co-operation in preventing boys attending the Auckland schools is something totally unexpected, since in the end they would have obtained few, if any, more pupils. Does the committee ever consider that a boy or a girl could board in town if the position became so

acute ? It is quite natural that parents like their children to have the best education obtainable, and since the newly-founded school has yet to prove itself capable of obtaining results that will be equal to other secondary schools, is it not a little too soon for the committee to speak success and draw pupils away from other schools that have proved their reputations? And then again, 1 am of the opinion that the parent alone should decide to which school his boy or girl should attend.—l am, etc.,

ALUMNUS. (“Alumnus” surely cannot be serious in putting forward the above argument. He must be awai*e of the fact that every child sent to Auckland for an education weakens the local high school’s chance of proving its success just that much. Of what use is loyalty to a district if it is not put into practice. If “Alumnus” were in business in this town as a draper, what would he think of prospective customers who told him they preferred to buy in Auckland because the big shops there had proved their capabilities to supply them. Would he not ask that he be given a chance to prove his ability? Parents alone should decide the school their children should attend, but they are expected to consider their own district in making their decision.—Ed. Times).