The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 171, 11 July 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1876.

The master of the Bridge-street school has adopted the unusual and, as it appears to us, reprehensible course of commenting in the public press upon that portion of the Inspector's report which refers to the establishment under his care. As to the merits of the case, or the justice or otherwise of Mr Hodgson's remarks, we have nothing to say : it is not a question in which we are in any way required [to interfere, but we do, in the interests of the public, feel called upon to protest against the adoption of a course which, if it is generally pursued by the school teachers in the province — as it certainly will be if iv this instance it is allowed to pass unnoticed — must prove detrimental to the cause of education in Nelson. If the teacher referred to felt aggrieved by the regent upon his school, he should have appealed to the Central Board, from which, composed as it is of a number of thoroughly independent gentlemen, he might have been certain of receiving justice. But there must be an end of all discipline in the service if a master is to be permitted in the columns of a newspaper to find fault with his Inspector's report, and to refer to a portion of it as a misrepresentation of facts. To what is it likely to lead ? "We have 68 schools with 87 teachers in the province. Is each of these to be allowed to write to the press in the event of his being dissatisfied with the annual report of the state of his school or division? "We trust that the Central Board will take the earliest opportunity of passiug a resolution Btrictly forbidding the repetition of such a breach of discipline. We wish it to be distinctly understood that we know neither Mr Hodgson nor Mr Prica in this matter j our remarks have reference entirely to what has occurred in their relative positions as master and Inspector.