Birmingham Education Committee: The Control of the Uffculme Open-Air School: A meeting of the Birmingham Education Committee was held this afternoon in the Council Chamber, Alderman Sir G. H. Kenrick presiding. The standing orders were suspended to enable the report of the Selection Sub-committee to be presented … (continues) … A discussion also took place on the recommendation of the Select Sub-committee that the control and management of the Open-Air school at Uffculme should be transferred from the Elementary Education Subcommittee to the Special Schools Sub-committee. … … Mrs. Pinsent pointed out that there were nearly 300 children under the Special Schools Committee, who were not mentally defective, and in not a single case had a parent objected to sending a child to these schools on account of the Special Schools Committee. Mrs. Pinsent did not anticipate that there would be one objection to sending a child to Uffculme on that score. The prejudice against Special Schools was greatly exaggerated.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949