Correspondence.
School Committee Reform.
Sir,—l noticed in your issue of the 16th inst. some references to a school committee, not twenty miles | from Masterton, whose members are unmarried and' therefore not fit (according to your correspondent),to assume the .responsibilities, of the position, I could mention one school not 20 miles from Masterton, composed principally of unmarried men, butwho notwithstanding had to assume"the responsibilities in order to put theaflfaira of the soliool into a decent condition. After themostgross mismanagement at the' bands of fathers and grandfathers oi families, whose joint conduct had placed the school in a very unenviable position, and .whose several titles to' the designation of " numskull" is indisputable,'your correspondent asks, "why do parents eleot over-grown boys to asohoolcommittee?". The ajiswej!. is plain.. These over-grown bpys are .capable- men, whose conduct jJpspi;ye|'and,ijceiyed the ■ spf a. M jnd whose, united, efforts;'haye ljuV on? object, viz,, to lift the school out of tu6; slough; of ■ despopdJnto which it has fallen under oldeiy but less able. handß.-rlam,&o„'>V ■,":"-■•'
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3541, 20 June 1890, Page 2
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165Correspondence. School Committee Reform. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3541, 20 June 1890, Page 2
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