A PATHETIC INCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 6 July 1909, Page 4

A PATHETIC INCIDENT.

A GIRL'S CRAVING FOR

EDUCATION.

A pathetic.instance of a sixteen-year-old girl’s craving tor schooling and the opposition of her parents was experienced by the head teacher of one of the Wagga schools recently, when he received the following letter: —“I am awfully sorry, but I am afraid I will not be able to go to school tor some time. Although I have begged of mother to Jet me go, she will not hear of it. She says that she can not go anywhere since I went to school, and that she has to do all the work. I do everything before I leave for school, except the washing up of the breakfast dishes, and these I had to do when I returned home. It is just because I like going to school that she won’t let me go. When I had home work to do she would not let me do it. She would find me something to do, and then make me go to bed; and if I started to learn poetry or geography, she would take away the light, so you can understand that it is not my fault that I cannot go. I told her how nice you and the other teachers were, but she only laughed at me, and said: ‘ You are not to go to school any more.’ I asked dad if I could go, and he said : ’After a while.’” the pathos of the incident is emphasised by the fact that the writer of the letter, a girl of 16, through being compelled to be her mother,s help in her younger years has only been able to attend school within the past few years.