SECOND EDITION Wararapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1894. THE MASTERTON INFANT SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4675, 21 March 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wararapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1894. THE MASTERTON INFANT SCHOOL.

We quite agree with the motion of the Masterton School Committee requesting the Education Board not to interfere with the status of the Masterton Infant Bch'ool. Under. the name of " regulation" that awful bugbear" regulation," the Board frequently does unwise things or has them done for them. The present is a case in point I For a' considerable number of years Miss Keeling bus been the responsible mistress of the Infant School at the northern end of Masterton, She has given satisfaction to parents, she has commanded tho respeot and confidence of children and she has done exceptionally good' work for her employers, the loard, By this we do not pretend to say whether she bas succeeded -as a standard crammer or whether ebe turns out the proper tally of tnaohine made.passes,but we do mean to say that she has been an intelligent teacher who has gained the friendship of the community by her kindness to her pupils and the nice manner in which the has trained them. Miss Keeling is just the teacher to whoni pareDts like to confide their little ones, and speaking lrom_a personal knowledge of many parents we do not know one who has ever expressed any dissatisfaction with the the manner in which she has discharged her duties. And yet the Board which eeems incapable of appreciating the highest kind of eer u vice wbicb a teacber can render, proposes to disrate Miss Keeling and attach her to the staff of the Main School. Apparently the only reason given for this, is somo new regulation. The Masterton Committee is evidently guarded in its remarks about the Board, it does not quite like to be out of touch with that body and is fnirly submissive to its deorees, but it would Ob the whole be a good thing for tbe cause of education generally some prominent Committee were to take up the cudgels against tbe superior body and show that there is Borne little independent power in the Bumble and down-trodden Committee, - and that it; is not merely a gohool cleaning apparatus. We have pointed out on a former occasion that School Committees in the Wellington Education District exercise 1 less authority and enjoy a lower status than in any other part of the Colony, and we trust they will not always be con« tented-to take this position,