SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2788, 1 March 1882, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

[to the editor.] Sib, —Your correspondent “ W ” has shot wide of the mark, in attempting to review your sensible and ably written loader of Wednesday last. “W " has apparently assumed the role of “ Special Pleader ” for Committees. The fact is, Sir, the system has proved itself so prodigiously defective as to admit of abuses described by your correspondent, << W " —I here quote his own words : “ Reports of meetings continually appear in the papers showing that in many cases the position of teacher must be perfectly intolerable." If this be true, what then is the remedy ? The difficulty must be met in one way only. As a surgeon uses his knife and amputates a diseased limb to save the patient; in like manner must the Education Act be amended, as regards the present state of things. Sweep away the Committees, and save the teacher from the “ intolerable" sufferings alluded to by “W.” The Boards of Education, with their respective Inspectors and staff, could well meet all the requirements contemplated by the Act—in reality this is the case, to a very great extent, at the present time. So far as Committees are concerned, the principle, if continued, will, to the minds of thinking and magnanimous men, become a reductio ad dbsurdum. Pro Bono Publico. Timaru, Feb. 28, 1882.