Beaudesert
Boys’ Council School 1913 [Z50/72/21]
Friday
19th April 1918: Bedfordshire Education Committee has received
a report that the number of scholars registered in the fourth and fifth classes
at the Leighton Buzzard Boys’ Council School is more than sixty, the maximum permitted
in a single class. The school managers, after discussion with the headteacher,
have submitted that the class sizes are unavoidable and have been caused by the
number of children who have arrived in the town from air raid areas. As these
children had already been attending fourth and fifth classes in London they had
to be put into the same classes in Leighton Buzzard. On 28th May last year
there were 63 pupils in class four and 67 in class five, and on October 10th
classes three, four and five all had more than sixty scholars. It was accepted
by the Committee that the headmaster, Mr. Currie, had arranged things in the
best way possible – to put pupils into classes for which they were not suited
when the large numbers were only temporary would have been absurd, and the
headmaster could not refuse admission without reasonable grounds. The Education
Committee therefore decided to inform the Board of Education that they believed
that in the circumstance this temporary breach of regulations was fully
justified.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 30th April 1918
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