Life in a Maori School, 2 Summary and Analysis

Post Holiday Notes

On the Friday before holiday break, detectives came to the class to question some of the boys about breaking into the ice-cream shop. The boys are easily led into confessing the deed. Sylvia writes a newsletter each week about activities at the school but is annoyed when she sees that the police department often adds criminal information about the children's relatives to the articles. Sylvia takes great pains in securing uniforms for the boys and girls.

Mr. Tremaine, the Senior Inspector, stops by to give Sylvia the good news that he now has a typewriter in his possession. One of the first projects his office plans to take on is typing Sylvia's handwritten primers. Mr. Tremaine had always felt that her primers represented the much needed bridge between the Maori...