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teachers; inexperience on the part of the
Monitors that were there under the monitorial system and
complaints from various parents. In 1914 a complaint of this
nature was received to the effect that the children were allowed
to play cards. However Miss Wright’s explanation that ‘in
wet muddy weather some of the children played whist during the
dinner hour, but since an objection has been made by one of the
parents, this has been stopped,2 satisfied the
Managers. Then in 1915 Miss Stanley left and her place was taken
by Miss Skudder. She had not been at the school for more than
seven weeks when Miss Wright records in the Log Book that ‘It
is impossible to keep strictly to the time table in class three
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experience by new teacher.3
Apart from these difficulties the school run
smoothly. The inspector’s reports became satisfactory; it
closed for the holidays and for such reasons as bad weather and
epidemics, and there were the successes; ‘The two girls Mabel
Hamilton and Florence Costen, who entered for the Scholarship
Examinations for free places at the School of Domestic Economy
Bromley, have successfully passed. They can derive no benefit
however, as the Kent Education Committee has closed the Domestic
Economy School.4
2 Minutes of the School
Managers’ Meeting June 14th 1914.
3 School Log Book, April 12th 1915.
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