THE RANGIWAEA SCHOOL.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 28 August 1916, Page 5

THE RANGIWAEA SCHOOL.

(To the Editor). seo i JI your issue of the 2.lst instant tiiat the chairman of the Eangiwaca School Committee, in his reply to mv letter of the 14th, accuses me of misrepresenting facts, but makes no attempt to prove his assertion, but shuffles out of it on the plea that it would take up too much of your valuable space, and be of no interest to the outside public. He lets the above considerations outweigh the welfare of the children. If Mr Chairman is a reader of the columns he values so highly, he will have noticed your report of the last meeting of the Education Board, at which the chairman of that body, in his remarks, said that the interests of the children came first, and I advise the chairman of this committee to paste this in his diminutive hat. It is obvious that in the opinion of our Ideal committee our children are here only to provide a livelihood for incompetent teachers, Mr Chairman admits that the committee has a duty to perform, but will not bo dictated to by an unjust agitator. I wish to inform the chairman that all progressive reform is first started by so-called agitators, and called unjust by the ignorant and narrowminded. Mr Chairman, in this and his previous reply, seems much troubled with visions of gas, but it is only a mirage, and a little hard work in the childrens’ interest is recommended as a rapid and permanent cure. This, Mr Editor, is also my final word to Mr Chairman, as there are. other ways of getting justice done to our children than through a stubborn and ignorant committee. —I am, etc , A PARENT,