Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927. EDUCATIONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3725, 3 December 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927. EDUCATIONAL.

WE congratulate the local District High School staff upon the success achieved in the “topping off ? examinations of the primary department as disclosed i lithe proficiency results recently published. It indicates a year’s conscientious work in the face of several set backs. Sickness has been rife both among teachers and scholars, but the leeway has been made up. If the school is to maintain the standard desired much will depend upon the co-operation of parents in seeing that the childfen are not allowed to remain at home for anyv reason other than sickness. Absence not only retards the progress of the child, but handicaps the whole class. The desire of all should be to justify in every possible way the large expenditure of the Board and Department in providing such splendid equipment locally for the education of our children. The opportunities, now afforded local children for primary and secondary education is secojid to none in the Dominion. The.physical side is also well catered for and the environment is such that school life‘should be a real pleasure. The ideals of citizenship and morality go hand in hand with the child’s training and who knows but in the near future Foxton will also be the training ground for a future Rhodes scholar.