Foxton State School.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3545, 11 July 1905, Page 2

Foxton State School.

OVERCROWDED ROOMS. SERIOUS COMPLAINT FROM SEVERAL PARENTS. The chairman ot the local school committee has.received the following letter, signed by a parent of children attending the school : “ Sir,—l do not like to be everlastingly complaining, but I feel that I must wrhc to yon about the state of the porches in the school, especially in wet weather. It is not myself only but a great many more parents consider it a perfet outrage that there is not room enough for ha*-pegs, consequently the children have to pile their hats, cloaks, coats and everything three or four on a peg. Many of them as a matter of course fall on the floor, and are trampled in the wet and dirt. Then when the children are coming out at recess and dinner hour, thev pull the coals and things about looking for their own, so that half of them are messed about on the floor and some of them are torn as well as soiled. I assure you the state in which my children come home from school sometimes is deplorable. Many o'her parents, I assure yon, are just as angry about this as I am. What is the use of a school committee if it cannot or will not look after things like this ? And them is another thing I want to mention, and that is taking the children out into the shelter shed. 1/ know the teacher says that it is warmer and pleasanter- for them in the shelter shed than in the class room and that the children like it. But what must the class-room be likejvhen an open shed in winter weather is better ? ”

Seven other parents besides the writer endorse the letter, which is to be forwarded to the Education Board.