AN IRATE PARENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 8 March 1915, Page 7

AN IRATE PARENT.

I NtjUMAMiV iSL v tl:OOii JXQUIUV. A mi cling of the MorinaiiJjy School ( oininitlee was held 011 Friday evening, when an enquiry was held with rcferciij, j to wvcnil charges made against Hie headmaster of the .Tchool by a parent, .Mr. Kolieri (ianlen. The committeemen present were Messrs S. Itichards (chair), \V. Pollock. T. Dee, 1!. .Julian, J. Hamilton, and ('. Preston, .Mr. (iardeii's charges were (I) that !ii.> lio.v 'iad been punished for a misdemeanour of which li« was innocent; (-1) that (iie buy had been expelled from the school for this alleged offence. .Mr. I.ardeii was present, and during the. course of a speech, in which personal matters and charges other than tlio-c before the eomniittee were, made, ! the Chairman had some little difficulty ! in maintaining order. I The headmaster made an explanation | to the effect that the boy had not been , expelled from the school, but was told :to leavi" tbe room until an apology was i ' 111 14 lor impertinence when spok- ; en io about hiii conduct in the school. ] Ine committee unanimously upheld j Hi., aclion of the headmaster, and ex--1 ell" as! the opinion that such conduct : f.j, :! 1 ■ ~i-v 111 "■ of even a more severe i punishment in the shape of corporal j punishment. T Dunns the course of the inquiry it ] 1 ill lied that; tile parent of the ! )>oy had interviewed the headmaster ! prim- to tlie inquiry, and was told to make his complaint to the committee ill, a proper manlier. The parent left tin- room after siat'ng that lie iambi no? e\|>,-el. any other decision from such a. committee, ami cxpre--e,i his intention of iu'hjiii'i a. complaint with the Ivlui-a i b>n Hoard, which, no doubt, will be refevrt d back to the committee for its report. Pare::!-, should that the I'.dll- . tutii.u Act of lust session contains a ; clause making it an for a parent ;to qlU'stioll file nl'tions ~f ;l .-cluhJ--1 111" ler in the pre-., lire of the scholar-: in n a liininn r in to isiterf.-ri- Willi ihe , di-eiulili . of the school. ■ ~.-11.' Mr:. UK Ml!, !•: I - "'.', 11 ■ 1 : ■