SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 6

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 2. The sixth annual conference of the New. Zealand Secondary School Assistants' Association opened to-day. The chairman, Mr. F. H. Campbell (Dunedin), said he was pleased to be able to state that the educational authorities were beginning to realise that the conditions of status and pay in connection with secondary schools were in need of alteration. He was not aware what effect the split in the Government would have, but he understood the Minister of liducation had drawn up a scheme which would probably give satisfaction to secondary school assistants. Mr. F. M. Renner (Wellington College), who was re-elected secretary and treasurer, said the ultimate aim of the association should be to bring about the nationalisation of secondary schools, even though that should necessitate the pooling of endowments. It might be said that only a small proportion of thi children from primary schools went on to secondary schools, but were those schools nationalised this objection could not be raised. He considered a child of 14 who left a primary school and went into the world was a distinct danger to society, for his mind was open and fertile ground for the sowing of false counsels. He (Mr. Rehner) firmly believed that a great deal of the present unTest and dissatisfaction was due to the acceptance of such false counsels.