| Earning a living in Victorian times | ||
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1880 attendance at school was made compulsory up to the age of
10, but even after this children were regularly absent at certain times
of the year. Whenever potatoes were to be planted or lifted, or it was time for haymaking, children would be set to work in the fields because their families needed the little money they could earn. |
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The extract shown above was from
Darowen school in
September,1880. It reads: Children were always needed to help with bringing in the harvest, and where possible the school holidays would be arranged for the same time to minimise the disadvantage to the children of farmers. There were more reasons for not going to school in Victorian times... More about schoolchildren and work...
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