EVACUATION PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 6

EVACUATION PROBLEMS

POSITION IN ENGLAND. The reopening of schools in many 'reception'’ areas comes as something of a godsend to harassed hosts with children billeted on them. Not that the children are displaying any special iniquity, but removed as they are from customary discipline, where that of the home or of the school, with all their time on their hands and habitual companionship removed considerably further geographically than it normally is, they inevitably constitute something of a problem, write “Janus in the “Spectator.” But it has been enormously eased by the fact that brilliant weather lasted right down to sunset of the day before the local schools opened their doors. All the same no one can regard «the present arrangements as permanent. As an expedient for meeting a grave crisis they have, all things considered, served their purpose extremely well. For a long-range solution—and we are to prepare for a three years’ war—something different is needed, and ft must clearly be on communal lines, boarding school life, in well-built camps, for elementary school children. The sooner plans for that are worked out the better.