Mixed Schools.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 91, 24 March 1883, Page 2

Mixed Schools.

A lady teacher of 1 gears' service m Victoria, m giving 1 evidence before the Education Commission, said the result of the present system of mixing the sexes is that the elder boys exchange love letters with the senior sirla, and make appointments to meet after school hours Poetry of the Swiuburnian type, it wou'd appear, is also passed round the cla s from hand to hand. The male pupil teachers, too, take great liberties with the girls, and are frequently to be aeen with their arms round thy girls' waists. On one occasion the witness saw a head master with his arms around a girlte waist whilst pretending to be explaining a problem m Euclid. Major Smith's celebrated circular prohibiting the corporal punishment of girls was unequivocally condemned by three lady teachers, their testimony b ing that it was necessarily ignoed. * We all do it" was the naive admission of one o( them, that set the Commissioners m a roar. The publication of that circular, they agreed, had produced a most injurious effect by making the girls, as arulejbold| turbulent, and self-confident