February 24, 1906

THE Redditch Technical School is not getting the support which the committee has a right to expect, nor is it making the progress of which there was so much promise in the first year or two following the opening.

In the past two years the attendances have fallen away very largely - by about 30 or 40 per cent we believe.

The novelty of the school seems now to have worn off somewhat.

There is too much reason for thinking that, by many of those who first attended, the school was regarded merely as a meaning of obtaining a little interesting pastime for an hour or two in the winter evenings.

As soon as it began to be regarded as serious work the attendance commenced to fall off.

An effort must ere long be made to show parents and the young people of the town and district that the school exists for a useful - a most important and useful - purpose, or it will soon have to be recorded that the work so far done has been thrown away.