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no. Three temporary schools—Camborne Road, Southfield ;
Magdalen Road, Springfield ; and The Furzedown,
Streatham, have been added for the purposes of
management to adjoining groups of schools. In the latter case
the additional school necessitated the increase of the number of
Managers of the group from twelve to eighteen.
Management
of Schools.
111. The Aristotle Road (Boys and Girls) School, Clapham,
and The Elliott (Mixed) School, Southfield, were
duly constituted Central Schools under the scheme
referred to in the last annual report (page 61), and the Council
were informed that a commercial bias had been approved for the
curriculum of such schools. The scheme provided for the withdrawal
of the schools from the groups to which they formerly
belonged, and the appointment of a separate body of Managers.
This part of the scheme was carried out so far as this Council was
concerned, but the County Council then stated that they had found
it necessary to review the whole question of management, and had
decided to reinstate the central schools in the groups to which they
had been attached. The Council concurred in this proposal, and
the two schools were accordingly reinstated. A special committee,
consisting of one manager in respect of each of the contributory
schools, has however been set up for each central school, to deal
with the admission of pupils and the award of junior county
exhibitions.
Central Schools.
112. On the invitation of the Association of Representative
Managers of London County Council elementary
schools the Council appointed Councillor Couzens,
the Chairman of the Education Committee, an honorary member of
such Association.
Association of
Representative
Managers.
113. The Council decided to concur in the views of the
Wandsworth Ratepayers' Association that the
regulations for the award of junior county scholarships
should be amended so that children not in attendance at
public elementary schools could compete on the same terms as
those applicable to children who are in attendance at such schools.
In the case of the former the parents' income must not exceed
£160, while there is no limit in the case of children attending public
elementary schools. A communication was addressed to the
County Council in the matter, but they did not see their way to
make any alteration in the regulations.
Junior County
Scholarships.