NERVOUS NOBILITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 3

NERVOUS NOBILITY.

Judging from remarks made ly various teachers at a meeting cf the Northern Metropolitan section in Sydney, there i-emain laraantable cases of ignorance in spite of so much educational facilities. Incidentally, however, it may be ssii .that tie cases were cited in support of an immadiate amendment of the compulsory clauses of the Puolic Instruction Act. One teacher stated that a case had just come under lis notice where a girl 15 years of age, living on the other side of Middle Harbour, had never been to school. A nm toss of an important suburban school had a pupil who had never attended any schocl until si e was 12, and then put in fromglO to J 20 days each quarter until she was 14. Irony was lent to this case by a letter from the mother asking if there whs £a Parents' Association in connection with the school, as she a'ways joined the Parents Association !" Still aaother story was told of a girl of 12 being placed in a lower second class because she was too old to stay m an infants' department. The mother wrote, telling the teacher "not to worry the girl with spellin's, as she was suffering from r nervous nobility." J