Rhayader
Victorian school days
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Here are some more examples of teacher's
complaints from the Log Book of Bwlch-y-sarnau
School about children absent from
school in Victorian times. There are lots more ! |
18th
September
1874 |
25th
June
1875 |
9th
September
1881 |
September
1874 - "Bad attendance at school this week, owing to the
grain harvest". There
was an awful lot of serious illness
amongst children in Victorian times, so there were also a lot of cases
of children "shamming illness",
or pretending to be too ill to go
to school. Two slightly more unusual excuses...
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