The State School.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 2

The State School.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAB. Sih, —Allow me to say that I think, with "Fair Play," that the committee are acting rather unadvisedly in recommending the removal of Miss Goodison, as it is very evident the duties expected of her, viz., the proper control and tuition of 56 pupils, when it seems the number should not be half so many, are far too heavy ; and as the want of cdntrol of her class, and its consequent comparative lack of progrees appears to be thd only fault the committee have to find, I think they would do well- to re^co-is-der their decision, and adopt some method of partly reliving this young lady of her far too arduous duties. My own opinion is that a resolution to remove one or two members of the school committee would be a better course than removing either of the teachers, who, I am quite sure, must know their duties and how to perform them much better than those members of the committee who are so ready in dictating to them. Another thing I strongly recommend, and that is, the removal of the infant portion of the school to another building, as it is impossible that both departments, now so large, can be properly carried on under the same roof. In fact, I quite believe, and in this I am by no means alone, that the time has fully come when another school for Feilding is imperatively required, and that there ought to be another one somewhere mid-way between the Feilding school and the one at Makino-road, say about the neighborhood of the railway siding. As it is, some scores of children come from that part of the district, and if there was a school there it would not only greatly relieve the one at Feilding, but would be a considerable convenience to the Makinoites, while many more children would attend who are now kept at home on account of the distance. —l am, &c, Pateb. '