PRIVATE SCHOOLS
SERIOUS CONDITIONS ARE . REVEALED IN ENGLAND. COMMITTEErS' REPORT. LONDON. Schools recalling'-CharleS Dickens' "Dotheboys Hall". and conduct'ed in 'bed-rooms, kitchenes, basements, and converted cellars by aged, bedridden, and blind or unqualified teachers are among the astonishin'g .disclosures of a Government committee. - ' , Reporting on conditions in private schools, the committee states that, while there are many exeellent schools and the majority are above serioUs reproach, a small proportion are harmful to the pupils' mental and physical welfare. A much larger proportion are seriously weak and inefficient. ' - " .' One school for children aged seven to 14 is conducted in a third-iloor room, with grave risk In case. of fire. One pupil was certified mentally defective, one teacher is deaf and the other is wholly unqualified. A. third school was held in a.kit.chen, and the 17 children attending. it waited . their turn for seats on. an -assortment of stools and chairs. A f ourth .w,as conducted round the side of a bedridden teacher. At a fifth the. sole teacher was over 80 years of age,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 234, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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172PRIVATE SCHOOLS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 234, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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