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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    in each week. Details regarding the qualifications of the Voluntary School teachers are not available. It is said that properly qualified teachers are difficult to obtain in these schools, but this is merely a question of making the salary and position suffi- ciently attractive. It is known that the proportion of qualified teachers is smaller than in the Board Schools. Although children in York probably remain at school as long as in other English towns, the age at which they leave is in most cases lamentably low— only a minority staying after they are fourteen years of age. Consequently, as pointed out on p. 75, but few of them acquire any thirst for knowledge or the power of sustained reading or study. Of the 1283 children who left three of the Board Schools during the years 1898-1900, 595 or 46 per cent had reached or passed Standard VII. The curriculum in Standard VII. varies slightly. The following is a list of the subjects taught in one of the Board Schools:—(1) Beading (general). (2) Writing and composition—original essays on common objects. (3) Arithmetic—vulgar and decimal frac- tions, percentages, and stocks. (4) Grammar—pars- ing and analysis of a complex sentence, suffixes and affixes. (5) Geography—the continent of Asia. (6) English History—Beign of Queen Victoria. (7) Be- citation—150 lines from standard poet. (8) Singing from note in either notation. (9) Drawing (boys)— freehand, model, and geometry. (10) Needlework