STILL EXISTENT

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1932, Page 6

STILL EXISTENT

“DOTH EBOYS” HALLS AT HOME

S<)M K ASTONISH INC I)ISG’LOHRES

LONDON, May 12.

Schools recalling Charles Diekins’ “DMheboys Hall” and conducted in bedrooms, kitchens, batsonicnt-s and converted cellars h,v aged, hedriddon and blind or unqualified teachers are among tin- astonishing disclosures of a. Government committee.

Reporting on conditions in private schools, tlm committee -states that, while there are many excellent schools and the majority are above serious reproach, a, small proportion are harmful’XLo the pupils' mental and physiciaV welfare. A much larger proportion are seriously weak and inefficient.

One school for children aged coven to fourteen is conducted in a thirdflcMir room, with grave risk in east- ol fire. One pupil was certified mentally defective, one lonelier is deaf and the other is wholly unqualified. At another school tin* principal is blind and ibe other teacher unqualified. A third school was held in « kitchen, mid the -seventeen children attending it waited their turns for seats on an aissortmeut, of stools and chairs. A fourth NVf , s conducted around the bedside ol ,i bedridden teacher. At a fifth the sob teacher was over SO years of age.