AF00101289 School file Broken Hill Public 5-15103B - Flipbook - Page 2
There is not a single sugg
'Luis
The class-room at the foot of the stair
provement that is not amplyested
s
warranted. is part of the new wing
. It Ls deficient der is that the
indeed, it is in the nature of a scan
youngsters escape
dal
in
vent
ilati
on. It is so cons
that the school was not attended to
long to forbid of the free circulatistructed as accident; there is always that
before,
in of free lurking danger while the
"The Government," said the presiden air currents. There should be a door, cared for. The wooden place is unbuilding is litt or some other . opening in the left wall
of the C.P. and C.A. (Mr. M. A.
.
y falling to pieces. In the not disSmedley) In summer it
and the corresponding; erall
yesterday, "has long since been infor
tant future it
as to the state of decay- into whi med class-room immediately above, are veri- ous to inha will be positivel dangerch
bit it.
buildings have fallen, but no effort the table infernos—they possess all the
The furniture in the kindergarten
been made to stop the drift. The has faults and none of the virtues of sir- sect
Go- chitecture.
ion is suitable, but that is
only
vernment must be made to realise
pleasing feature about the classthe
its
The balconies upstairs are utilised
rooms,
responsibilities in the matter;
as
that
exce
is
imp
pt,
rovi
of course, the materials which
sed class-rooms. Originallk, it
why the Association is acting. Thin
gs was sought to have the balconie
used in instruction.
Indubitably,
cannot go on as they are."
s boar4s, are
the
ed
in, but the nearest approach th© delittle kiddies .oligiat to he better
On Wednesday afternoon, a re- part
ment would permit was the
sheltered thah
hre.
presentative of ,Tarrier Daily Trut
ision
h" of canvass curtains. Came aprov
The summer heat is atipaii,ti fihole
inspected the Central School buil
stor
m
or
drttline4 hutelies.
elchers and
ings. Almost at a glance even the two, and away went a large portion of
the canvas. That is another typi
alike 'are mad© to suffer for the neglect
inexpert eye can detect serious defe
cal
pf a department which hag failed to re.
in the cluster of buildings in which cts lustration of the "economy" which the
eognise its respon.sibilitie4 in the matt
rtment is wont to practises
hundreds of Baprier children are inmany depa
er.
Everything the C.P. and C.A. has deSeverd years ago pihns for g new
process of having instilled into them the
the
man
infan
ded,
ts'
and
scho
more
ol
'*ore
,
shou
"41r
ld be conceded in
awri and
rudiments of an education that is
o.in- order to properly fit the building
NA. Nothing tatempted, nothingappr
tended to equip them for life's strug
for the
done,
gle.
func
tion
since
it
is
.
expe
cted
.
to perform
Entering by the main gateway one
is
Two-storey school buildings of. -the
A verandah at the back of the build;
confronted by an unpleasing visio
n
of
type
ing
of
the
furth
boys
est south, 'which is used .as
'
depa
rtment at the Cenbroken windows in the girls' depa
class room, oateheS1 the full blaze of the
It is the same with the other build rtment tral school are fit for condemnation.
western sun, which make condition
Many pounds worth of glass dest ings. There is but one staircase and should.a
s in
summer absciltuely intolerable. One
—none replaced. Some of the brearoyed panic ever occur those who escape with
ks
are
their
end
lives
is
used, perforce, as a lumber store.
will be fortunate.. The childalmost as old as the buildings
Not ,one
are not the ,products of yest , and they ren, of course, are well drilled, but even
of
the buildings
in
erday. All that fact is of little or no
the
infants' department is. without
school windows should have wire
practical utilproits!
whe
n a few "lose their
gaping cracks in the walls. It is iitt•
tectors. The girls' department has
stood is invariably the case when heads," as
possible to cop:e with the dust. On dusty
for 12 years.
fear takes
poss
ession of the mind in times of crises.
days—and Broken Hill is notorious
Except that it sadly lacks a few
for
coats
The
re is but one weather sheaf for
the frequency with which dust storm
of paint it is in tolerably good
happen—the teachers and Children mighs
The girls utilise the veranespecially when it is rememberedorder, the boys.
t
that it dahs.
as well work in the open for all
has not been painted since erection.
the
shelter those shacka afford. The floo
A direct result is that all the %vim:1o ,The infants are housed in the old set
rs
v:- of buildings, structures that for
have not been attended to far years.
sashes—and the number is larg
the
Seve—are most part have seen iier%
eral
large
hole
s
unstable, due to exposure to all
are
most conspicuous,
ice since
not to mention innumerable smaller ones
thers. The window sashes are virtu wea- the earliest days of the Barrier.
.
ally
Amo
ng
them
The
is
re
the
is
first
an
destroyed, whereas had the matter
enrolment of about 300
State School
of
built
in
Brok
en
Infan
Hill.
ts,
Som
who
e sentiment 15
, surely, deserve the utmost
painting been attended to—bad
there supposed to attach to that
consideration.
been a sane system of renovation—t
shack, but
hey
pres
ent-d
ay
requ
The
irem
CY. and C.A. most certainl
ents dem
would have been in good orde to-d
ay sentiment should play no part and that
entitled to all the, backing parents y lc
That they are not 'is entirely ther fault
in such
and
matt
ers.
Scie
nce
citiz
insis
ens can give it. The Government
ts upon an appreciof a parsimonious Government.
able
adva
nce
mus
upon what was "good ent be foree:d to a realisation of the
The face of the wood work about
the ough for our grandfathers."
position.
place is knotty, some of the knots bein
g
The
build
ing, which is about 30 Years
It is "enoumbent upon the Edu
loose. In a well tended structur
n
e that old, is occupied by
Department to make the schools catio
could never be.
the ‘kinderof the
garte
n
class
.
State, more particularly those of Brok
The verandah has
The interioi-; of the girls' departme
nt gaps in several places. The
Bill, as attractive as possible. Attr en
won
actiVeness means effectiveness, and effec
tiveness is the. aim of education. If State
education, is to accomplish its miss
ion
it must build upon a solid foundatio
Neglect in . any particular is crim n.
inal.
and renders impotent forces that othe
rwise would tend to more thoroughl
tablish the principles which modern y escation is supposed to inculcate intoeduthe
minds of the adolescent.
School surroundings must, in a Mea
sure, be made to act as an insp
iration
to the children—an inspiration that
will
load them towarli the higher
e.
There must be no drab class roomplan
,
Unfortunately, home life in a s.
great
number of cases is such as to
deaden, or
to kill in the bud aspiration
s to higher
ideals, but that evil can be foug
ht to a
large extent by a decent seho
Ol environ-.
rreiit. In point of fact, the envi
of the school can be made to ronment
completely
counteract the environment
of the 'home.
At the moment, the school is as drea
a retreat as 'twiny a home. It is knig ry
to make the children of to-day wort ht
hy
citizens of to-morrow: but the Gov
Meat must fail in' its .endeavour, ernunless it makes the accompli
shment of that
ideal possible. ,
To make it possible it. Must immediately commence upon a sheine of
scientific reconstruction.
No temporising, no palli
suffic0. The children mus ativeS ` will
t be given a
fair chance—the teachers must htive
reasonable opportunity of devi4oping h
the
best that is in the child.
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