CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 6

CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL

Attendance Not Quite Up To Normal N0 FURTHER CASES For the second time this year schools in Hastings were reopened this morning and so brought to an end a "break" of six weeks which was entered upon after the new school year had been in progress only two weeks. Though the attendances this morning at the primary schools were good, they were by no means 100 per cent., and it is clear that many parents still entertain feelings of anxiety as to the welfare of their children and have decided not to send their youngsters to school in the meantime. It is expected, however, that as there were no further cases of infantile paralysis during the week-end, and it is now almost two weeks since there was a case in Hastings, these patents will be relieved of inost of their anxiety and the attendances tounorrow will be aboat normal. A good many children were early on the roads this morning making their way to school, and from reports from the schools it is obvious that the greater majority of them were quite pleased at attending school again, and having the ppportunity of renewing juvenile comradeship and company. Everything was in readiness at all the schools, the teaching staffs having been on cruty throughout the period the schools wera closed to children, The teachers found that they had to go through the "breaking-in" prpcedure afresh, bpt on the whole Vney found the pupils eager to settle down to their studies and make up for the timo Jost.