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LORD DE LA WAEE'S recent speech as President of the Board of Education in the House of Lords in reply to a motion by the Archbishop of Canterbury has been sent out as an announcement of the Board. It is a timely recognition that educational affairs in Great Britain are not as they should be, and that improvements are needed at once. Granting that the wholesale evacuation of children was a necessary and difficult process, more pains should have been taken to cope with the problems to be faced, one of which, now urgent, is an increase of illness at this time of the year. Every schoolmaster knows the dangers of the Easter term. Things have been done in a hurry and in alarm which should certainly be undone. An important school in a non-danger area was closed until further notice and reopened when better sense prevailed; much of the commandeering or use of school buildings for Government officials or civil defence was unwarranted, and its extent has been reduced.
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Evacuation and the Schools. Nature 145, 254–255 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145254c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145254c0