SCHOOLS HOME WORK DURING EPIDEMIC.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1925, Page 4

SCHOOLS HOME WORK DURING EPIDEMIC.

K DEC ATI (> N ItO A ill) DISC FSSKIX. At the meeting cf the Canterbury Education li.iard on Friday, Air Wild moved that in view id the special grant, for correspondence classes being now’ exhausted lurtlier advertising in thinly he restnicteJ to the two morning papers, and the cost he met out of the Board's general funds. He said that the appointments (oinmittee report that tiie .scheme could not he carried oil unless further guarantees were made which meant the correspondence classes coming to a stop really before they had got properly going. The appointments (oinmittee had caused the managers of the city papers to he interviewed, asking for 11 concession on their charges without success, although the country papers had met the Board liberally. The cost of advertising the lessons was L'so a week, hut the Board had 37,030 pupils lo care for and were inlying £20.000 a month for teachers' salaries, and they must continue the payment of £2O) a month, however they raised it, to gel same return for this big expenditure. Alost teachers and pupils were working well, hut he thought the Board should do more directing and less asking. Air Winsor said the evening paper should he included, as it reached a very large number of people who never saw a morning paper.

Air Andrewes said he had been told by teachers that parents and pupils were not taking much interest in the classes, and it was a question whether under these circumstances the Board should strain its finances to keep the thing going.

Mr Banks said it was never expected the papers would make such a charge ami lie suggested they should be interviewed again. -Mr Thompson said nothing should lie allowed to interlere with the continuance of the work, whatever the cost. The motion was agreed to. with the addition that the “.Sun” he included, and that the chairman of finance interview the city papers’ managements.