1964: Massive Exam Hall Conditions
August 11, 2020
By AHNZ
By August 1964 Otahuhu College was, for the first time, conducting examinations under massive exam hall conditions. A shift from an intimate and familiar study environment to a large, exposed, desk farm reminiscent of battery hens.
Fifth form students sitting an examination in the school hall. “Headmaster Mr G Anstice said this was the first time the school had held examinations in this manner…” – South Auckland Courier, 19 August 1964
Labour 1.0, in 1936, abolished the need for a proficiency certificate examination for kids to enter secondary schools; Everyone could go “for free.”
The other essential ingredient leading to the above image is the Baby Boom. After the war (c.1946) maternity hospitals had to boom because of babies. Then primary, then secondary schools needed to boom too in order to adapt as the Boomers arrived and passed through those institutions as well.
Like a woman who has had a few babies too many, New Zealand has been stretched by the Boomers passing through her. The marks still remain.
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Image ref. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections; New Zealand: History & Natural History; Facebook
Ref. 1944: No serotonin for you, Boomer!
Ref. 1954: Mazengarb
Ref. 1970s: Road Warrior Boomers
Ref. 1970s: The Fall of Four Square Stores
Ref. 2010s: Baby Boomer Self-Entitlement
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