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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 December 1912, Page 3

" 1 have been forced to tlio con. elusion that pupils are kept unduly long in preparatory classes, and consequently are retarded throughout their whole school course," says the Inspector General of Schools, in his last report. " Several of the hoards' inspectors huYO argued that the time spent in the preparatory olasses should not be curtailed but that pupils might be passed quicker through the lower standard. Such a course, however, has certainly not been generally followed in the past few y^ars, as the time spent in passing from SI to S6 is 4 years 10 months, and it was the same in 190q. It J« further argued that in a large class the dull pupils retard the progress of the bright ones ; also that the secondary schools are existing for the comparative few, and that these should not be considered when the woil-being of the majority, who leave school aiter passing the sixth, standard, is at stake. To such objections I must answer that it is unfair and disheartening to clever and ambitious scholars to be thus retarded, and that at the least their promotion need not affect those who are not so well favored intelleptually. The proportion of pupils proceeding to the secondary schools is now, moreover, very considerable."

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