Technical School: City’s £105,000 Scheme Adopted: Organiser of Meals: … … Councillor Freeland introduced the report of the Elementary Education Sub-committee, who recommended an amended scheme for the award of prizes to scholars of the elementary schools … … Mr. Freeland said the sub-committee had been obliged to realise that in many parts of the district it was far better the children should be in school than running about the streets. In a great many cases both parents went to work. Otherwise, the sub-committee would, as a principle, feel that five was quite early enough for children to go to school. Mrs. Hume Pinsent asked if it were possible that the infants in the poorer districts should attend school only half the day. Could they have a rota by which half the infants attended in the morning and the other half in the afternoon? It has struck her that in asking children under five to attend school in two sessions, they were asking more than was compatible with the health of the children. In reply to Mrs. Pinsent, Mr. Freeland said she had raised a novel point – a point which he had some sympathy with. When they came to the question of expenses they would be faced with difficulties. He could not see how they could get any grant for children who only attended half the day. Mrs. Pinsent: Is it not a subject big enough to have a deputation to the Board of Education on? The recommendation was carried, and it was stated that Mrs. Pinsent’s suggestion would be considered by the sub-committee: … …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949