School Morality.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2962, 28 July 1888, Page 2

School Morality.

The following istlio reply sent to tho School Hoard circular, * by the head master of the Masterton School:— [Masterton, June 25,1888. Sik.—ln reply to your memo, of 21st June, I beg to assure yon that at no time during the last eight years in which I have been headmaster of tho Masterton School has any charge of immorality been brought against a scholar of tliis school, consequently neither Education Board, School Committee nor the teachers, have, so far as tbisschool is concerned, "hushed up scandals." With regard to the statement that" boys aud girls are herded ;to|jetherj": J beg to state'that every.

possible precaution is taken to prevent tin- intermixture of boys and giiN, both hen', ami I have reason to believe m all our Boaid schools Classes, although composed of both sexes, arc i igoiously divided into two portions, the hoys horn" thus Eiparaied troiu the girls Dining the mid day lece^salso, the guls who icmmii to lunch me lift in charge of a lady teacher, while the hoysain imdir the supervision ot a nmstei m a f.epnute plaigiound 1 entnely disagao with the conclusion ailived at by the New Zealand limes " that the mt lh dual linpiovement has been accompanied in some degree by moral degradation" I honestly believe, and my belief » bised upon schools both at' Homo in a large manufacturing town, and in Aiistialm, that the moral tone of om schools will com paie favorably with tint of tho schools of any other countiy. I may state that in accoidance with a wist sug gestion made some years ago by the Inspector, moial lessons lie legally given to tin, classes of om schools I nin itc, Wsi Tiios. GiiUND\.