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Daily Mirror 29/3/1940
TEACHER DISMISSED – VILLAGERS PROTEST
Villagers at Ash near Gravesend, Kent, are protesting to the
education committee against the dismissal of Miss Alice Wright,
who has been headmistress of the local school for twenty-seven
years.
Miss Wright, who is sixty-one, was asked by the committee to
retire after evacuated teachers complained about her methods of
conducting the school.
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Daily Herald 29/3/1940
TEACHERS GRUMBLE - ‘HEAD’ IS SACKED
Complaints by teachers evacuated to Ash, near Gravesend,
Kent, are stated to have been partly responsible of the
dismissal of the village head schoolmistress.
A village protest meeting, by 67 votes to 4, passed
a resolution demanding her retention. The teacher is Miss Alice
Wright aged 61. She has 27 tears’ service.
"The evacuated teachers complained to a school
manager about the way I arranged the classes, and said I was too
careful about the milk," Miss Wright told the ‘Daily
Herald’ last night.
"I was also accused of holding up the Ash
children as models for those from London. I would not do such a
thing.
One of the school managers said complaints were
made to the Education Committee.
The Committee asked Miss Wright to retire. She had
attained the voluntary age. As she declined she was given three
months notice. It was felt she should make way for someone
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Kentish Times 29/3/1940
ASH - SCHOOL MANAGERS CRITICISED
PARENTS PACK PARISH MEETING
REQUEST FOR HEADMISTRESS
TO BE RETAINED.
So many people attended a Parish Meeting at Ash on Thursday
evening that there was not seating accommodation for them all.
Most of them had come to support Miss Wright, who
was recently dismissed from the post of headmistress at the
village school, and their support was both vigorous and
outspoken.
Mr. Storer resided, and others present were : Messrs.
Collis, Coles, (Parish Councillors), Meadway, and F. Goodwin
(Parish Councillors and school managers, and Mr. Simmons (school
manager).
Many of those present were parents of children at
the school, or had themselves been taught by Miss Wright, and
all bore witness to the good work she had done during her 27
years service.
SCHOOL MANAGERS EXPLAIN.
The school managers, not without considerable interruptions,
endeavoured to explain the reasons for Miss Wright’s dismissal
by the Kent Education Committee, but the majority of the
audience remained unimpressed, and the degree to which they
assimilated the manager’s statements was indicated by the
voting.
Before the vote was taken, however, there was a
heated discussion on who was entitled to vote, and on the
allegations that the evacuated teachers had had milk when the
pupils had gone without.
Mr. Collis, who proposed the resolution, said:
"I wish to protest against the undignified way in which
Miss Wright has been dismissed from the |