Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUPP. a few cases dirty, surroundings. Too often the home life of the child is spent amidst dirt and slovenli- ness, and its only chance of seeing and learning to appreciate clean, airy, orderly rooms is at school. No child is allowed to come to the Board Schools with dirty hands or face, and though its clothes may be much darned and patched, they must be clean and must not be ragged, a regulation which has a salutary effect both on the children and their parents. Un- fortunately in some of the Voluntary Schools no such regulations are enforced. In spite of poor buildings and equipment many Voluntary Schools obtain the “ excellent” grant, but as a rule specific subjects are not taught in them as they are in the Board Schools. For the past three years all the Board Schools have earned the highest possible grants. Board Schools: Curriculum.—Under the new Code the obligatory subjects are reading, writing, and arithmetic, with drawing for boys and needlework for girls. Also one of the “ class subjects ” mentioned under the head of “ optional subjects ” must be taught to Standards 1, 2, and 3, by means of object lessons. The optional subjects, all of which are taught in the Board Schools, are : singing by note, recitation, English, geography, elementary science, history, and, in the case of girls, domestic economy. In the upper classes of the schools the following subjects are taken by individual children : elementary science, domestic