WAITOHI FLAT SCHOOL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1136, 18 August 1883, Page 1

WAITOHI FLAT SCHOOL.

A meeting of the Committee was held on Monday, August 13th. Members present—Messrs Talbot (Chairman), Currie, Scott, Seaton, Anderson and Moore. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A letter from the Board of Education was read, sanctioning the appointment of Mils Drybrugh as Sowing Mistreat

From the same, lining pa'd into the Bank tlie incid-ntal gr.nt for the

current quarter. The master's report fur tlie past month was received, showing the number on the roll to be 58, and the av«-r;ign. attendance 40,17.

The report of a special R'a-i iard exaniination, he'd by the Inspec'or »u J i \ 4 •', was read, as follows •

Report on a Hp'<JH I xr:in nr.l ,<x imiua tion of the War oh i Foil Sj li >..1. I. 1 ! July 4th, 1883:—Mart,r: Mr J I.Caopell, Attendance : Number o>) mil. 53 ; avtuujje attendance : 4D ; pn-s-nt at t-x< initiation, 41. Results of Xiimi nation in passes—Slander 1V : Present <i I. p.s«el 1 ; Standard IV . P.e-ei.i.d 4, passe.! 2; Standard 111 : I'reae fc-il 5, p.i's*ed 0; Standard IL : 4, pas-ed 1; Standard J. P.es -ntel 10, pns-ed 0 ; tj'al preset td 24 | ass d 4. G>* c.ral r. in irks : Th- nciilt <il' die Amu I Standard ixaniination in J mnry h ing very unsatisf.ctoy it «as a-ranged to have a second examination at the • n<l of six months. At thefira examination out of 36 s-holars pici-entuil in Mandar 's only 6 passed ; fciio work b ing very imperfect and elementary. At the pies nt ex him a tion out of 24 whom failed to pass at the li-»t ex mination, only 4passed Theie«ult*Nho.vs'ighfc improvement, luit no specialf ilorthaslicitu made to lei-tify the grave defects pointed out at the first exniiii atio i, anl as very little improvement is shown in lhn general management of the School 1 am co npellsd to recommend a change of masters. (Signed) W. HAM\nxi>, Inspector After along discussion whici endued after the reading of the report, it was resolved to adjcitrn the meeting until Thursday the 16th, the repoit to be handed to the ma>ter in the nieantiiue, for him to «ffer ench explanation as ha might deem ptoper. The adjourned meeting was lull in accordance with this, arrangement, when the following letter was handed in by uli'i teacher : To the Chairman Waitobi School Coin* imttee. Dear Sir,—la c>mpliivice w't'i your request that I Hiould coinmu iato in writing any explanations I had to mik* in re the Inspector's a I verse rep>rt of your school, I heg to submit the following statement of facts which may assist your Committee in iirrtv-ng at a jnt decision upon the Inspector's recomiiH dation that I tho,ilil be inovid • 1 t. Thut the Board's Inspector h«ld his am ti I standard ex initiation oi Uih J inn .ry. 1883, and my first slat- ment is nmo'y onfirmed by his report 3rd. T oit -m reopening th« sf'hool on the 19th J-tiiian I re-arranged the Hasans, aid »iit>l;vid-l my time in order to m et the require netts of the syllabus, for the next ftn . „.,l ~x . amination in January, 18'4 4h 'lint the very pupils who passed in my classroom were advance'! lo another sttnd ml on the 19th February, tlnr-hy shewing that I was well acquainted wi h the individual attainments of the pupils. sth. That the first intimation I received of the Inspector's intended upecial standrr 1 examination was at the end « f A; r '.« Lo i I is January report was handed torn- by your Committee. 6th Tint the bid weather ef the past winter, and the ptev dunce if sickness among the clilirjn have materially retarded their progress. From the ab"Vft statement .of facta you can judge for if I hid limn to work up the pupils'state <>f efiicuncy. With regard to th- Inspector's remarks < n the general management of >h' Kchonl, lam not conscious of any'ax fy or cat*-, lessneas on my part since I erih* red upon the duties of head mas'" r his of roji-fo not open to m- as a teacher to cnt< ise the reports of the Is, e tor. I (rust, however, that your Committee will be satisfied with the above ixpUtiution that lam unfairly trea r ed by the Boird having been recomtneriiled to disiense with my services at this juncum.—l am. etc, J. T Campbell. The following resolution was proposed by Mr Currie, seconded by M v Scott, and carried unanimously—" That the Committee regret that the Inspector has deemed it necewnry to recomtn nd a change ofmasteis, being of opinion that this action is at least ptcmaturc, and being confident that parents are we 1 s,.tisfidd with the progress their children aro making under Mr Campbell. That it was an impossibility to obtain a fair per centage of papses in the face of the deporably bad sta'e of the school when Mr Campbell took charge, »s ptovwl by the Inspector's report of February 13 h. The Committee have every cmfi em e in Mr Campbell, and wou'd tespectfuliy ask • the Board not to dispense with Ills services in connection with this SHi-ol nt present.' A few matters of loutiie busings having been dealt with, luu meeting terminated