TEXT BOOKS IN SCHOOLS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2

TEXT BOOKS IN SCHOOLS

WAIHI COMMITTEE’S DISCUSSION. NEED FOR UNIFORMITY, The vexed question of the lack of uniformity of .the text-books used in our public schools was touched on at the monthly meeting of the Waihi School Committee (says the “Telegiaph). The continual changing of the text books in the different standards, said the chairman (Mr D. Johnson), was too costly for the family man, and more particularly to parents with big families. It was pointed out that in some instances books used in, say, the fourth standard at the East School differed from the books used in the same standard at ,the South or the -Central. Schools, so'that pupils changing from one school to another were required to get a fresh set of books. A big source of expense to parents, also occurred in some cases where a boy or girl after passing into, say, the fourth standard, could not pass their books on to their brother 01* sister, because in the interval new text books had been introduced into the standard. The chairman remarked that the board’s system of change" in text books in the various standards nad been a bone of contention of long standing, and he would move th,at the board be asked if it were not possible to standardise school books in the various classes, so ajs to obviate the necessity of parents, continually buying new books for the same classes. This was seconded by Mr Bbxall and carried.