OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 1

OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Thjb " Telegraph " advocates the raising of the school age to six or seven years, and is in favour of the abolition of the sixth standard, the cost of educating pupils in which, it says, is more expensive than the fees paid in High Schools. The "Telegraph" adds: "In Hawke's Bay, 10,200 children have passed their various standard examinations during the last six years, but out of that number only 219 passed the sixth standard, or an average of 36 children per year. Now, when it is remembered that in some of our larger schools the whole of the Head-master's time, with the exception of the short space devoted each day to general supervision, is taken up by preparing pupils for that standard, if we were opponents of the present Act we might ask are we not paying too much for our sixth standard education. '( Or put it in another light. So few pupils take advantage of the facilities provided that if we abolished the standard altogether, but little hardship would be inflicted, while there would be a great saving to the Board. In fact, we believe it would be cheaper for the Board to pay the fees of all passing the fifth standard and desirous of going n to the sixth to attend the High School. '