EXTRA CLASSES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
To the Editor o?in?s "Evening Mail." Sp* — We have heard of schools for larrikinism, and have thankfully received the warning against permitting out sons to attend them. - ... But imagine my feelings ai a mother anxious for the good manners as well as good morals of my sons and daughters on learning that there is a scheme afoot, in with our public shoola, for instituting classes in which the pupils are to be practised in throwing [inkstands, apple parings, &c, at ' each other. The exact mode of instruction I have not been able to learn, and with regard to the material the inkstands, indeed, are easily available, but how about the apple parings?- It would be a tax on the teacher's patience to peel all the apples brought to school himself, and the children, I have noticed, invariably dispense with that ceremony in devouring them. But the practical difficulties are as nothing to the mental bewilderment which fills me in trying to discover the reason for these peculiar classes being considered desirable. Trusting that some one may enlighten me, I am, &c. An Anxious Mother. I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 83, 7 April 1880, Page 2
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190EXTRA CLASSES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 83, 7 April 1880, Page 2
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