CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2603, 20 May 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor). Sir.—Your Tenui correspondent shows me that lie knows very little of school work or he. would <not say tit "some of tho ohildren were. allowed to pass the same subjects twice." I say the teacher would be a genius who Would prepare children in one or. even in four years to pass a final examination in English and that part of the mathematics which treats of the properties of numbers-not

mentioning the other sohool subjects—, | though your corrospondent appears to I ,be able to do it in one, If he is such a competent ; . teacher he would not I have offered to go to. teach in-this ,dis- . :trict for his food,' but would;have * applied to the Board of Education for an appointment.- ■•■ I. consider a man 'haying such a good teacher for a few boy? must have thought that they 5 would do better than in Masterton t School in 68 days than in so t many, weeks; without our private J expert. I think all your readers will J agree with me that your correspond' < . ent .has ..the .good qfjhe (private) school at heart, just-as much'as'l • have the publio one, if not more ;' < which can be plainly seen when a \ retrospect viow is taken of the respective movements since and at the Cora- , mittec meeting of tho 23rd September, i 1886, at which the Original Butcher was tho principal actor, who withdrew • his children from the school for over ■' three months, hi 1885, when 100

( per cent passed in the school, there • \ was not one in this district begging for to get pupils to go to a private school, which is not started yot for the want

3t pupils.. We all know that novelty produces pleasure, and in this case it bas caused the children to become discontented, as' it is a child's nature to long to .partake in a novel action though it might prove injurious to it. I should advise your Correspondent to publish facts and not to quote what he has been " told." If I were to give publication to what I have been " told' some would wear a mask during the day and if they would not, they should. Who is ho that would not pluck a pigoon for the eating of the substance, or part of it. I put theso facts before the public and shall leave them to judge for themselves as my time is too valuable to be thrown away for what which is of no valuo, I wish the private school, when started, every success, but I beleive it will bo a failure like our Church services, undor our present reader Magi.