SCHOOL CARD SYSTEM
DIVERGENT OPINIONS FAVOURED IN PALMERSTON (From Our Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. Recently the Education Department instituted a card system whereby the headmasters of all primary schools are required to keep a record of the pupil’s career, both scholastically as well as medically. The one side of the card records the dates of the child’s admission and withdrawal, attendance, attainment in school work and games and estimates of industry and initiative. On the reverse are queries relative to the personal and medical history of the pupil. Owing to the -work entailed in filling the cards in, some criticism has been forthcoming from the profession, Auckland headmasters having gone so far as to ask: “Are we to be teachers or clerks?” Opinion in Palmerston North, however, favours the system, it being maintained that the data would be of great assistance to the teachers and in the long run the child would benefit. The value of the system would be evidenced on the transfer of the pupil to another institution, while at the close of the pupil’s scholastic career, a copy would be sent to the parents or guardians, enabling them to see their child’s aptitudes and thereby aiding in the determining of his or her future career in life.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 18
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211SCHOOL CARD SYSTEM Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 18
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