Primary School Classes
Sir,—Thank you for your leading article supporting the Lincoln P.T.A. members who were game enough to give the scandal of primary class numbers the publicity it deserves. It would seem that Education Department officials and Education Board officers are valued in direct proportion to the number of excuses they can produce for taking, let us face it no effective action to reduce class sizes. To my personal knowledge, there was official talk almost 40 years ago of soon getting numbers down to 30 pupils. Today we have full timberyards and unemployed carpenters; we have Government accounts that can always be fiddled to cope with an emergency, we have capable adults who would be ready and willing after six weeks’ practical instruction to teach junior classes of twenty children. We could have the class-rooms and teachers in six months. — Yours, etc., J.F.W. August 13, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31449, 16 August 1967, Page 16
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