SCHOOL DESKS

Evening Star, Issue 22475, 21 October 1936, Page 14

SCHOOL DESKS

PROVISION OF INDIVIDUAL TABLES The High Street School Committee wrote to the meeting of the Education Board to-day asking that standard furniture be installed in all the rooms of the school. It was stated that individual tables and chairs for the standard classes would cost about £3OB and dual desks about £220. After brief discussion the following motion was carried:— “ That the High Street School Committee be informed that dual desks are still the standard type of furniture approved by the department, and these are available for any school without cost. Some eight years ago, however, the board decided that individual tables and chairs were superior, and decided to instal these in any case where a committee was willing to find the difference in cost between tables and chairs and dual desks. When the department decided that individual tables and chairs arc to be the standard type of furniture they will be provided without cost, the department no doubt making provision in the board’s maintenance grant for flic additional cost. Fifty-live schools are now fully equipped with tables and chairs, the committees in each case finding the additional sum. The board believes that this is the only education district where individual tables and chairs are provided for the standard pupils, and it is solely because the parents have been willing to contribute towards a better type of equipment for their children than is regarded as necessary by the department.”

It was pointed out that the department and the board found file cost of levelling floors.