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Sch.31 Summary of two interviews with a married couple regarding the education of their children at non fee-paying and fee-paying local authority schools, female interviewer, 10 April 1962

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/4/31

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: Playing areas - children are forbidden to play football on the central green as neighbours complain to police; travelling to school - children go by bus even to Ainslie Park because female INTVEE thinks it's safer, she worries about roads and walking through West Pilton; Ainslie Park - provides good education; future careers – they do not want their son to be a manual worker but to have a salaried position so there is more security and no involvement with the unions, they would like their daughter to take a secretarial or office position; fee-paying schools - the people who send their children to Merchant company schools look down on Wardie and Trinity just as much as Wardie and Trinity parents look down on the non-fee paying schools, female INTVEE would have liked her children to have gone to merchant company schools but this was out of the question, she hadn't wanted the children to go to the local schools because the population in the area is so mixed - so many rough and dirty children in Drylaw, Muirhouse and Pilton; accommodation – INTVEEs were first offered a house in a tenement block but turned it down as they had never lived in a stair, in a nearby cul-de-sac there are 90 children. Female INTVEE had lived in the Boswalls as a child where the rent was higher. Living near families with children the same age meant the children would involve you in trouble with the neighbours and means it is difficult to keep yourself to yourself. As a child she would never have expected her mother to take her side against the neighbours; Wardie school - very positive, has its own swimming pool. They don't regret sending their children to a fee-paying primary even though they have not gone on to a fee-paying secondary school.

Dates

  • Other: 10 April 1962

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Extent

10 Sheets

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