HELENSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 December 1916, Page 3

HELENSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Will you kindly permit me, through the medium of your paper, to call the attention of parents to the following remarks ?— At the present time it vpould be an insult to the intelligence of most people to remind them that ignorance results in incompetency and subserviency, as well as physical, mental, moral and social failure, and makes one totally unfit to act as an intelligent vmit in, a free, democratic, and representatively governed country, Now, if education were expensive a.nd difficult of attainment, and the parents of a f&mily were offered, say by a benevolent rich relative, the means of having their children well educated, the offer would be acoepted with gratitude. .These are platitudes all will agree withy, but human nature is, to say the least of it, subject to strange influenoe3, and the very things we would strive strenuously for if difficult of attainment, and be grateful for when obtained, we seem to entirely fail to realise the value of when within our reach. As regards the establishment oj: a High School in Helen.s,Y,Hle, all that eeems tq be. required is that parents should assert their right to have their children efficiently educated by expressing the wish that their children shqu\d not be condemned to lives qf ignorance, with all the disadvantages arising therefrom. AU the parents need to do is to write to the Helensville School Committee, sending in the names of any children they may have who have passed the Sixth Standard, and guaranteeing that they will send tham to the High School in Helensville should one be established at the beginning of the New Year. Immediate action is necessary if the school is tq. b.ei smarted next year. All depends upon sufficient pupils coming forward, twenty being the minimum number tq secure the services of a High Sahoal staff. So send in your guarantees at onoe, and take advantage of the grand educational facilities available, and your children, in after years, will have cause to thank you.-—I am, etc., F. R. E.