THE PLAYGROUNDS OF ENGLAND.
A Departmental Committee of the Board of Education have inquired into the question of playground accommodation. We all know what the playground of an elementary school generally in—a small patch of bal'd, trodden ground which looks more like a plain of tears than anything else in the world. "Vet it is a place where a ball can he kicked or a. skipping rope turned without interruption from passers-by, or risk of putting out their eyes. Poor as it is. the. committee rightly regard its dimensions as important. They insist that when new schools are planned effort should be made to secure facilities for games on a much more abundant scale. “After 1925 a playground allowing less than 15 square feet for each child should be classed as insufficient. By 1925 we hope the playgrouncPwill he recognised as of equal importance. even from the purely educational point of view, with the school itself. But will the committee's reminder that a field or park is better for recreation than a. playground stand any sounder chance of being acted on in 1925? W© should like to think it would, but are doubtful.— • Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette.'
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Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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199THE PLAYGROUNDS OF ENGLAND. Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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