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Llanidloes Victorian school days |
Where are all the children ? | ||
The teachers in Victorian schools
nearly always found it difficult to get their pupils to attend
school regularly. |
18th
October
1879 |
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"The attendance is still low and more irregular than ever. Some of the causes are 'working in the harvest' and 'getting up potatoes'. The attendance officer seems to take no trouble to enforce the attendance of children attending the school". |
Drawing
by
Rob Davies |
"Attendance
officers" were supposed to round up missing children and
check with the parents of those who did not turn up at school. In 1895 the teacher at Llangurig School wrote in the diary that "Parents laugh when the attendance officer puts in an appearance". |
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If they got laughed at by parents and even stoned by children then it must often have been a pretty thankless job in Victorian times ! More about attendance problems...
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