PARENTS TO BLAME

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 849, 18 December 1929, Page 8

PARENTS TO BLAME

SCHOOLBOYS’ CARELESS BEHAVIOUR LAXITY OF INTEREST Many parents to blame for th# faults for which their sons are punished. In many cases the parents really earn detention. This view was advanced by the headmaster of the Mount A 1 Grammar School, Mr. F. W. Gamble, addressing the attendance at the annual prize-giving last evening. r * Gamble criticised the laxity of some parents in their attitude toward education, and the well-being of their sons. “Too many boys are known to the school only as members of a form, he said. “In organised games, clubs, or societies, talented boys have opportunities to cultivate their natural gift* or tastes. If every parent, realising a son’s tendencies or deficiencies, n sisted upon using the facilities have ready for him, we should be ahl® to employ our resources for the maximum good. “We have unnecessary difficulty h* receiving notes for absence; * boys neglecting homework lack of a parent’s interest; we cases of neglect in appearance. 1 not too much to ask that a be punctilious in the ordinary tions. Weekly detention is too P°P lar an institution, and many * . f out detention really earned by parents.” , 0 f The chairman of the governors, Professor A. P- -Th &£rs. , presented the form prizes. an “. Ltjfi [ \V. Ward Baker presented the aim trophies.