CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE STRATFORD SCHOOL. (To the Editor.] Sir,—ln your paper of the 7th Inst., an anonymous writer, "British Freedom," has a letter in which he accuses our teachers of practising cruelty and persecution towards two small Swiss boys, recently admitted to the school. Shortly after the letter circulated in Stratford the parents of the boys in question were interviewed. They stated that the boys liked going to school, and were happy there, that they had made no complaints to anyone. The assertion made that the headmaster of the school had had to interfere on the boys’ behalf is absolutely untrue. Stratford people know the value, the very high quality, of the work done in our infant room, and the very happy conditions un’der which the children are governed in it. The school needs uo defending from assertions of any anonjunous correspondent, and 1 am writing this just to say that the statements made contain not u vestige of truth, that they seem to me to be malicious, and quite in keeping with” a person who attacks girls and then hides his identity under a nom de plume.—l am, etc., JOS. W. BOON. [The author of the letter in question was Chairman of Stratford School Committee, a woman, not a man.—Ed.]