The School Committee.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 110, 31 May 1883, Page 2

The School Committee.

The scant courtesy received by the ' Feilding School Committee from the Wanfcanui Board has necessarily excited a good deal of notice among the parents of children attending the school, as well as among the ratepayers generally. We have no intention of discussing the subject of the strained relations which obtain between the committee and the school teachers. We merely desire to point out an irregularity which ought not to have been permitted. We refer to a petition forwarded to the Wanganui Board direct, when it should have been passed through the local committee to the governing body in Waneanui. " A Parent" very justly complains of what he calls "back door" influence having been used to frustrate the actions o£ the oommittee. In our opinion the prepara* tion and forwarding of the petition will have a contrary effect to that intended, and will assist in fostering the estrangement existing between the committee and the teachers. The Wanganui Board should have refused to receive it unless forwarded through the proper channel. As the matter now stands, each member of the local committee is conscious that

he has been subjected to a most emphatic snubbing. If the Wanganui Board had exercised a littie tact, or had assumed the role of peace makers or arbitrators, we believe that mutual concessions could have been made to the end of restoring amicable relations between the School Committee and the teachers. But instead of this the Board followed the same course adopted in the matter of the Halcombe school, and displayed decided partisanship of even a more marked description, which makes an amicable arrangement now impossible.