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Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents by New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents
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(_b_) Particularly in rapidly growing industrial areas, the number
of visiting teachers should be increased.

In pos
t-primary schools there is at present no official system of
linking the home and school in the investigation of problems.
Traditionally the headmaster has done this, but with the increase in the
size and complexity of schools he has now too little time for this work.

Post-primary principals, in their evidence, appeared worried by the
problems of conduct arising from the inability of pupils to leave school
until they have reached fifteen years of age. It has already been shown
that the pattern of juvenile delinquency which is the subject of this
investigation is found particularly in this age group.

It therefore seems desirable that some help should be given to
post-primary schools. The Committee makes no specific recommendation[2]
how this should be done, although it is emphatically of the opinion that
there is a need for this help, and that the personality of those doing
the work is of more importance than the question as to which
organization should control them.

This is only the immediate step. Everything possible should be done to
restore the community bond between teacher, parent, and child--by the
stabilizing of the teaching service, by the provision of houses for
teachers in newly developed areas, and by continuing the effort to
increase the number of women in the service.


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