THE BOROUGH SCHOOL AND THE EXPRESS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 173, 16 November 1880, Page 3

THE BOROUGH SCHOOL AND THE EXPRESS.

To tiik Editor. Sir, —The letter writer of the Ex fire .>•*, who of course is not a member of the Education .Board and a prominent I issimaniae, seems never tired of tuning the same hire on the one string of political feeling, which is at the bottom of his faultfinding with the Borough School. Mr. Henderson lias not “ably disposed of the question." He has made assertions, some of which have hcen tli.sproveil, ami othcis not proven, and, as regards the attacks on the Inspector, the latter showed to the Board that he could hold his own. The report of the Inspector will shortly be published, and we shall then see how far it hears out the Hendersonian version of the state of matters at the Borough School. Who has “attacked the .Renwick School ? —Nobody lias, and it is, I believe, wcdl conducted, and its master a competent teacher, hut very opinionated, and thinks there is no master as good as himself, but wliat seems to me unfair is that when there are other country schools which claim to compare favorably with it, that it should he “buttered up," and the master he put into the position of an old hen c ickling over her chickens,, whilst nothing is said respecting other pains taking such deserving country schoolmasters. As regards the Blenheim ‘.Borough School, my hoy appears to he well taught and cared for, and I am sure that in after life lie v, ill feel grateful for the knowledge he acquired there. He is, I believe, backward in his Latin, hut Latin was not taught to girls when I was at school so 1 am no judge on that point. I dare say that there may lie room for improvements in detail at the Borough School, but on the whole I am not dissatisfied with the present management, ami feel thankful for the Educational advantages it affords, and in common with many others thank you for your evident desire to see fair play. “ Fair play is bonny play, a motto which the attackers of the Borough School might, in my humble opinion, study with advantage. 1 am, &0. A Moth hr.