Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919. ABOLITION OF EDUCATION BOARDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1989, 12 June 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919. ABOLITION OF EDUCATION BOARDS.

AT Inst the press is awakening to the fact that Education Boards are a useless quantity in the scheme of education, and that their days are numbered. These intermediary “glorified school committees’’ must

soon give place to central educational committees. Discussing this subject, our Palmerston evening contemporary on Tuesday says; “It (central committee) would command for its representations more earnest attention at the hands of the central authority than any of the existing school committees could possibly hope to receive, and would thus prompt to more vigorous action the powers that be in Wellington. .Reformed methods of control, with greater powers for the local authorities, are essential to the more efficient education of our young people, and we believe this can best: be secured by substituting for the present* cumbrous administration properly elected local committees, controlling not one but all the State schools within their respective districts, and dealing direct with the Minister in Wellington. The existing Education Boai’ds are in no sense of the term representative of the people. They but constitute a hybrid growth, built up on the votes of a select few, who, again, cannot themselves claim to have been elected to the positions they hold as school committeemen on any democratic principle. Palmerston not only wants new schools, ■ but new methods of control, and the sooner the position is recognised the better. A very considerable saving'could be effected were (be Education Boards abolished, and the moneys thus to the good could be applied to much better use in other directions. 1 -’.