Mr. Daley’s standpoint was very clear 7 survey after survey 
     
     had been done over the years. Survey after survey produced 
     
     findings that were basically identical, and each brought re- 
     
     commendations that sounded like echoes of the recommendations 
     
     of the preceding one. The pamphlet reviewed the findings of the 
     
     MacLeod Commission 1908; the lVlaclVlillan Commission, 1929; 
     
     the Canadian School Finance Survey 1955, done under the 
     
     direction of Dr. M. E. LaZerte; the Legislative Committee survey 
     
     under chairman Frederic Large, 1957. Little, if any, positive 
     
     change in education came about on P.E.l. since their findings 
     
     were not implemented. In Charlottetown, on the contrary, the 
     
     findings of the Matthews Report were put to use to change an 
     
     inefficient and outdated school system into a modern, effective 
     
     educational scene, where problems were no longer viewed as 
     
     insurmountable. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lVlr. Daley comments that “the community-wide effort to 
     
     get new school buildings has led to a wider and wider interest on 
     
     the part of parents." He has failed to mention that it was the 
     
     wider and wider interest on the part of parents that was respon- 
     
     sible for the Matthews survey having been undertaken. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The LaZerte Report had a different fate from those that 
     
     were already gathering dust since copies were readily available to 
     
     every school district, to be read and studied by teachers, parents, 
     
     trustees and ratepayers. ”When Island people are given the facts 
     
     and the facts are straight and plain and when those facts deal with 
     
     the youth of P.E.l. there is little or no doubt about what will 
     
     happen," concluded Hartwell Daley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Keeping the public informed on significant trends and 
     
     happenings in education has always been one of the major 
     
     functions of Home and School, because an informed public is the 
     
     key to educational improvements. In keeping with that policy, 
     
     Home and School had Dr. LaZerte address little local meetings to 
     
     discuss with them the findings that led to the 39 recommenda 
     
     tions on financing education. His voice went out over the air on 
     
     the Home and School broadcast, new at that very time. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 
     
    
   
   
    
     One of the oft-stated goals of Home and School is equal 
     
     educational opportunity for all children. There are many who tell 
     
    
   
   
    
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