"HIS WATCHMEN ARE BLIND"

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 237, 25 January 1889, Page 2

"HIS WATCHMEN ARE BLIND"

Well may the unfortunate head teachers under the Wanganui Eduda* tioh Board exclaim "His watchmen are blind" when the Board allbwa them to suffer a monetary loss,, through want of arranging the datea of reopening the schools bo as not to clash with the public holiday on the Anniversary of the founding of this Province. What prospect could 'there be expeoted of any school shewing a decent weekly average;- warn the school was timed to opest on Monday the twenty first instant,- to be dosed the following day. Th&w instances unfortunately only too welt 1 illustrate the manner in which these Education Boards cairy oat their duties, as longas themembers succeed in shepherding the interests of their particular schools the supervwitift ' 'of the district as a whole is left in the hands of the Boards clerk, arid the new year becomes thus ireherfed in, for the Masters, with a diminuition of salary, which the slightest Consideration on the part of the officials might have avoided: What organisation is likely to run smoothly, when the most important meinbete of it (the teachers) feel that their interests receive such small attention. We should not lay such stress upon this oversight if it had been the first to Tie placed against the conduct of these unweildy bodies, but it is only an addition to the many vexatious blunders which have stirred all who are well acquaidted with them, to do all that lays in their power, to ■ have this fifth wheel in the Education coach, removed before it succeeds in upsetting the system which it is supposed to support. ' >>' ,