OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 140, 4 June 1908, Page 2

OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS. NEGLECT ofw& COUNTRY SCHOOL. Per Press Association. Duncdin, Last Sight. At the annual meeting of the Country School Committees' Association the following resolutions were carried:—That the Uovernuient be urged to make more adequate provision for the payment of teachers in country districts, to ux a minimum salary, and give increments for good service; that proper ami adequate provision be made for supplying' teachers with residences and reasonable conveniences; that a better system of heating be provided in the schools; that comfortable rooms hi; provided tor school children in which to change wet garments and hoots and furnished with separate lockers; that the Education Board be recommended to defray in mture the full cost of painting and distempering schools; that Education Boards and committees from local know- 1 ledge are best qualified to make provision for the conveyance of children; that at the, annual examination of pupils obtaining proficiency certificates lie eligible to admission to secondary schools at the beginning of the following year and be entitled to two years' free tuition; that the attention of the Minister be directed to salaries and stalling the high schools and more liberal provision be made, also that district high schools be under tne control of Education Boards; that travelling allowances be paid to teachers when shifting; that in justice to country children the new method of allowing scholarships be promoted; that the conference views with' concern the weakening of local interest owing to the manner in which the central authority is asserting itself; that the attention of the Minister of Education be directed to the fact that the whole education system is viewed too much from the standpoint of the city schools; that schools of the Dominion should be divided into two divisions, city and rural, and that (modification of the classification of "i-lmols, of payment and promotion of •teachers, of standards of education, and j of inspection of schools is urgently required to do justice to rural scJlooSs;, which, although they contain a vast majority of schools and children, are made subordinate to city schools.