THE GREYTOWN SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1247, 7 December 1882, Page 2

THE GREYTOWN SCHOOL.

To the Editor

Sir,—Ai touching '.heGreytown School, the report furnished by the inspector to the Wellington Education Board, and that- laid before the Grey town School Committer by the Headmaster, are remarkible for the undesigned coincidences which are very observable in them. Ist The Inspector is said to have "sent in a wport strongly unfavourable to the teaching capacity of Mr Arnold, the assistant master at Greytown. Out of a class of 27 taught by Mr Arnold, only one passed at the recent examination." Tho Headmuter reporU "the almost'total failure, nf one class remains to be accounted for, but irregularity of attendance is the chief cause of this unsatisfactory result." Probably what remains to be accounted for m the headmaster's opinion is supplied by the Inspector's opinion as to the incapacity of the assistant master. Both are, however, quite in accord in bringing into very promineut notoriety, the fact of the failure of jhe elan taught by the poor Assistant. 2nd; Undesignedly, of course, and with au innocence and 1 simplicity quite overpowering in their guilelessness, both'reports agree in making no mention whatever of the total .failure of every candidate to pass in Standaid VI and of the wretched results of Standard V. At least, if the Inspeotor has done so that part of his report has not as yet been'made known to tlia pubbo. This'would not wmtor BO viry muoh if it were tho first tear of such poor results; but when it is known that this state of things has been ttoing ou four years' it Weomes.ft Very serious question indeed,'^] Fait play is a jewel arid a right which every Englishman may claim, and if. the " almost total failure". of ono class : is to be attributed to the master's incapacity to teach, surely Ihe total failube of another class should be assigned to the same cause —especially when such very: marked weakness in the same'clais for four years cannot but point either to incapacity or want of energy on the part of the master. . lam, &e.) Fair Puy,