Corporal Punishment.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 264, 13 May 1896, Page 2

Corporal Punishment.

At yesterday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, a letter was read from Mr J. H. Hankms re corporal punishment inflicted by the head master at Rongotea. Mr Hankins wrote on behalf of 19 parents, and without making any definite complaints, pointed out that a change in the staff was necessary in the school as the attendance was safferiae;. j A long explanatory letter was received from the teacher emphatically denying he had ever punished a child too severely, and stating that no complaints had been made to the Committee. Inspector Bindon said that Rongotea school had for the last two years been complimented upon the high average attendance. The chairman of the Committee wrote stating that the attendance at the school was in no way prejudiced by Mr Bowater's conduct, that they had every confidence in the teacher, and that they would like to know who the 19 parents and guardians who signed the petition were, as they were aware that some of those signing were not parents of children, and that one lady had been induced to sign by a misrepresentation of the contents of the petition. As a matter of fact the indignation that existed was against the petitioners and not against the teacher. It was resolved that the Board was perfectly satisfied with the explanation. — Standard.