SCHOOL AGE BILL
PURPOSE EXPLAINED
• EDUCATION' FOR POOR ! . LONDON, 7th November, j In the House of Commons Sir Charlei . Trevelyan, President of the Board of ( Education, moved the second reading . of the School Age Bill. He said that i the raising of the age from 14 years to , 15 was to ensure a real education bei tween the ages of 11 and 15 for chil- ; drfen of the poorer classes. No member > of the upper classes failed to keep hii son at school until 17 or 18, and it was ; time the children of the workers were s given the same opportunity. "No big--1 ger thing could be done for the country. The Bill is a charter for the averaga . child." Lord Eustace Percy (Con.) moved > the rejection of the Bill. He said that ■ instead of providing a solution, of the problem of juvenile unemployment it would cause such violent fluctuations as seriously to increase unemployment among young people in the next five years. The education of those the Bill was intended to benefit was half carried out in factories after leaving school. The Bill was read a second time by, 294 votes to 227.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 9
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195SCHOOL AGE BILL Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 9
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