"VIATOR" AND THE THAMES SCHOOL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2154, 29 November 1875, Page 2

"VIATOR" AND THE THAMES SCHOOL.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

. Sib,—With your kind permission I, as one of the. teachers now. holding an appointment on the Thames Goldfield, hereby wish to enter my protest in your widely circulated paper against the insinuations, conveyed by; your correspondent " Viator," relative to Mr Goodwin, the late teacher of the Thames School, in his letter of Friday last. I believe Mr Goodwin to have been a most conscientious, painstaking and hard working teacher. I know him to be one who practically understands the work of teaching, and that his heart and soul are in the work. I am not taking up the cudgels on Mr Goodwin's behalf, but more on behalf of the whole body of teachers employed here at present; for any of us may leave the district at some time or other, and what is to prevent ." Viator '.' or any one else who thinks his. particular forte is to act the part of an Inspector of Schools from damaging our fair lame by some ill-advised insinuation after our departure. ladvocate {hat any teacher should be only too glad to receive a visit from those interested in educational matters ; for it is a fact, very much to be deplored, that -too much apathy is displayed by the public at large in regardjtg, those matters, but le,fc^ fcbc-visifcs-be"'con-fined to the inspection of the school or schools as they then appear, and 1e.6-com-parisons :'between' present and former teachers be left out. Ido not for moment suppose that" Viator " intended to make any insinuation about Mr Goodwin, but as such it presented itself to me and.to others. While agreeing inVth'e main with " Anti-humbug," in Saturday's issue; I do not see how Mr J&bore can be 'responsible for what " Viator " says.—l am,

(S.XF.