THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 161, 5 April 1872, Page 5

THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbonicle.) Sir, —Erom all accounts the, School Committee deserve the indignation of every parent. They have removed the School House from the pretty and salubrious site it has occupied for years amidst the wreck of gravel, sand, and water, .to-a healthy locality and school reserve, but so. near to the schoolmaster's residence as to. destroy his view of the main road for at least a chain. Our schoolmaster is, I hear, not likely to recover from the attack of bile caused thereby. 1 also hear that the Committee intend asking the schoolmaster to meet them at times when he can make it convenient, to consult with them on school matters ; and he has given it out that he would rather resign. The Committee seem rather pleased at the stand taken. Just imagine the insult they have put on him by daring to ask him to get a certificate of efficiency from the Education Board, when it is well known that he possesses certificates far above anything that could emanate from such a source ! It is too bad, especially when everyone knows how kind and obliging he has been since his residence amongst us—always foremost in anything for the good of the place, and for education especially. The Committee has also expressed their intention of having the school so conducted that our boys will not be obliged to go to Duuedin to learn how many days there are in the year, when everyone knows that " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." They also want the rudiments of Latin, music, algebra, and a lot of useless rubbish taugLt. I think the Committee should resign, but they say no other Committee would act, for they had last time to elect themselves, no one else attending the meeting called for that purpose. JS'ow, if this proves anything it proves that the schoolmaster is able and willing to carry on the business of the school by himself, and has and will ignore any Committee that may be appointed. Of all the Committees yet formed, it is said that not one possessed the commonest business habits, or ability to do anything; and, only for the schoolmaster keeping them up to the mark, the whole affair would have gone to pot. It is a pity that the Education Board should insist on a School Committee being elected annually, for I feel assured we of JSTaseby, under our present teacher, would get on a deal better without one.—l am, &c, About.