Roses All the Way
\WVHAT is the purpose, I wonder, of such documentaries as the one on the Special School at Otekaike, heard in the National Women’s Session? Is it no more than to give free publicity to the institution? Not that I grudge the Child Welfare Division a chance to publicise its work, which is- too often misunderstood; but must the programme stay always at an elementary level, not to say sentimental? If I say that the picture of Otekaike sounded to me a little too rosy, it isn’t because I know anything about the school there. I don’t. But I have in the past helped to paint similar rosy pictures of other institutions and I know the technique. To delve deeper, it would be necessary that a programme should not take the institution wholly at the valuation of the people who run it. It would be necessary to find some independent person qualified to ask pertinent questions, so that listeners could be informed of some of the fundamental problems of caring for children in an institution, and of how much was being done to tackle them. If the picture which then emerged was just as rosy, so much the better for everyone. ’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 18
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204Roses All the Way New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 18
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