OUR HIGH SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 215, 20 December 1910, Page 7

OUR HIGH SCHOOL.

To the Editor. Sir, —On reading the speech of the chairman of the High School Board, one could not help contrasting this remarkable panegyric with the speech of the same gentleman at the meeting of the Presbyterian Church last week. Mr. MacDiarmid certainly deserves to be complimented for the manner in' which he dealt with a very delicate matter. He had a duty to perform to his church and to the community, and we all admire the fearless way in which he handled his subject, whether his views be right or wrong. His line of argument was to show that the Presbyterian minister had outlived his usefulness, his church for years past having been on the downward grade. Does this not apply, with far greater truth also to our High School? And- would not the chairman have performed a public duty if he had told the principal and his assistants at the High School ceremony last Thursday that they had outlived their usefulness, and it was time we had a change? Our High School lias for years been stagnant. It has not kept pace with the growth of the district, and yet the Board seems content to allow matters to drift ( along in the same old groove. If the principal,and his assist-' ants are responsible for the failure of the past why not face the position and make a change? If the members of the Board are themselves to blame it is time they handed over the reins to a younger and more energetic body of men who would be prepared to sweep away the present out-of-date methods and go in for a more vigorous policy. Our High School as an educational institution cannot be called a success, and it is quite time the people of New Plymouth received some return for the very large amount of money that is spent on it from year to year.—l am, etc., PARENT.