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Sch.19 Summary of two interviews with a married couple regarding the education of their children at non fee-paying local authority schools, female interviewer, 16 July 1962

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/4/19

Scope and Contents

INTVEEs think there should be more swimming pools and the children taught more sport. Male INTVEE thinks that the last year of school is a waste of time and that it is a mistake to reduce apprenticeships from 6 years to 5 years. Female INTVEE’s memory of Leith Walk School are lining up in front of the flag on Empire Day to salute it, they were taught housewifery and had a proper little house which they learned to run, made meals and washed and cooked. INTVEE’s daughter complains that the commercial course at Ainslie Park didn't include any domestic subjects, it assumed you were a career girl and wouldn't need them. Her most unpleasant memory of Ainslie Park is the showers in the gym but she enjoyed surveying the Scott Monument in Princes Street with a theodolite. Female INTVEE is shocked that her son is doing weaving at primary school and is quoted as saying, "Now if it was woodwork, that's a different matter, but for a boy to be weaving was a very cissy thing to do". INTVEE’s daughter recollects an Ainslie Park teacher with a plate in his head which made him violent at times. Includes unflattering description by INTVER of a child with Downs Syndrome.

Dates

  • Other: 16 July 1962

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3 Sheets

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