EDUCATION COSTS
TEACHERS’ FEAR OF CUT.
{By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, September 30.
Replying to a deputation from the Federation of Teachers to-day, Hon. M. Masters, Minister of Education announced that there was no intention of doing away with free place secondary education.
The question was raised by Mr F. O. Brew, Chairman of the Management Committee of the Federation, which had approached the Minister to express its opinions concerning . the economy proposals, Mr Brew referred to the that the free place system in post-primary education should he abolished. He asked whether the results of such a move had fbeen conidered. “The' abolition of the free place system and the exaction; of fees would bring about in New Zealand the hideous problem of the unemployed adolescents,” said Mr Brew, “which is and KasJbieen in England, a problem of the greatest concern.”
Mr F. M. Renner, headmaster of the Rongotai Boy’s High School, expressed the opinion that the liberal granting of scholarships in the secondary schools to the children of ability in the primary schools -are educationally unsound. Those children who get the most put of the secondary schools, he said, were generally those who would not have won a scholarship afeall in the primary .schools.' Adolescence and puberty made a wonderful difference to A boy, and many did not start their development until their second year in a secondary school. The ordinary hoy would be definitely cut out from further education if a system of scholarship, were in vogue. Any removal of the free places woiild immediately, .throw a large number of young people on the labour market.
“I have no intention of doing away with free places in secondary education in New Zealand,” Mr Masters said, amid applause. “I realise that our young people have rO have an opportunity. I wjll say this, that there is a large number of boys and girls who do go to secondary schools and who come away without having received any benefit. It is a waste of public money if we ; go on giving unnecessary secondary education in cases like
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1931, Page 5
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