CLAREVILLE SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 704, 28 February 1881, Page 2

CLAREVILLE SCHOOL.

(To the Editor. Waiiuuapa Daily.)

Sir,—You think that School Committees are scarcely competent to judge of the professional skill of a. teacher, and that such a question is clearly o nfl for tho Inspector to decide. Sir, as an GX.schoolmastor you have givon your Uncalled-for opinion.. No doubt it ought. to be one for the Inspector to decide, and' so was the Paliautamu. But what do we see? A school with 12 or 15. children where if there had been a good teacher, the attendance would have been 50. Now, Sir, this is the case at the Clareville school, and, if let alono, it will become proportionately as bad as the Pahautanui, There are from 25 to 30 children away from the school already, and if there is not a. change soon things will he still worse. Sir, with all due respect to Mr Lee, the Inspector, it seems to me that the parents are the best judges, and they have either kept their children at home or sent them to other schools. Some are sent to Carterton, but the majority are sent to a.private school,'their parents thus having to pay double. You say your correspondent used wise discretion in omitting to-publish.the resolutions cited in last Saturday's issue of yourpaper. Sir, it was not left to tho discretion of your cor-respondent-he was prohibited by the casting vote of the Chairman'. lam not much srpprised at anything in the shape of uncalled-for remarks from you, sir, but I am surprised to see Sunday School teachers supporting infidelity in om- public schools. It is.high time that this personal spite was done away with, and that we worked together for the welfare of the school and the requirements of the district. Some of those who voted against the two resolutions are now in favor of them. One was heard to say that if he could afford it he would taie his children away and send them to the private school, Yours, &c, m •„ „,' J° Htf Vile, CJarenlle, 2Sth February,