WHATAWHATA SCHOOL MATTERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1275, 31 August 1880, Page 3

WHATAWHATA SCHOOL MATTERS.

TO THE IDITOB. Sir, — In the Times of August 24th, your correspondent sympathises with those children who have a distance to come to school, and seems to think it very hard of Mr Boler complying with the instructions of the Inspector of the Education Board in locking those out who arrive late,, but, even if they were half-an-hour in the porch it is not likely to do even the most delicate of them much injury, but, as it happens, those who live at the greatest distance are always in time, there must be something wrong somewhere, as the parents who cannot have children ready to walk a few hundred yards to school at half-past nine cannot boast much of the management of a family. I remember in my young days I for several years had to be in school at 9 o'clock, and that not one where rules were laid .down for the teacher. In my opinion the father or mother who will obstruct the master in keeping order in hi* school stand greatly in the way of their children's progress. In this I find I am expressing the opinion of several of the heads of families in this district, and it is hardly worth fighting for, now that the wet weather may be expected to have almost passed, and we have every ho#e of our ways being mended, as we have two Road Boards for Newcastle and surely they will do something to enable those poor children to be in time, and will think of the slough of Whatawhataflat, &c. — lam, Sir, yours &c, Je vis en Espoib.