Scope and Contents "Queer and bats according to Dr. Father committed suicide. Terribly anxious to push [son] on, makes him do lessons during the holidays, frequently reduces him to tears, gets exasperated because he can't concentrate. The father is a very intelligent man, alert, inventive. PC thinks the father his neurotic too. Dr confirms - there is a definite mental trait in her. Husband is a forward, violent man, very capable, forceful and domineering, unpopular."Relatives in survey: Son:...

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"Spoilt by his mother who would wrap him in cotton wool. Was a difficult birth. Big boy, dull. Good natured, no concentration, not well equipped mentally. Mother always keeping him off school for no reason at all - would go off her head if anything happened to him."

Relatives in survey: Father 35.79

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"Very aggressive, neglects her children. Is probably a Miss. Lived for a time in one roomed cottage."

Relatives in survey: son 39.31

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"Problem child - enuresis, soiling and running away. IQ 93. Father about 45, farm labourer, really a roadman but had to do farm work in order to get a house. Mother, dead. Stepmother worn out and inadequate. Housing: 3 rooms for 3 adults and 8 children, very dirty. Family relationships inharmonious. Patient had formerly lived with a relative but was badly treated. Known to NSSPCC."

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"This girl is "a bit dull", "daft and stupid". Very slow child, nice manners. Father a farmer, mother very possessive with her family. Grandmother lives with them, partly bedridden, very garrulous, not quite normal. Said to be an alcoholic. Prosperous farmers. Very good home."

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"This woman is a rat - dresses herself up to the nines and leaves her children every evening. Always shifting, dirty. Children and 2 adults in 2 rooms. Inharmonious."

Relatives in survey: Children 45.18, 45.20

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"This lad was a problem, truanting, now a bit better. Bright. Father, works at laundry. Mother, dead, was peculiar, did nothing about her home, kept an awful house, was deficient. Out of control after his mother died - no one to see that he went to school. Dr says this boy suffers from lack of parental control."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 16.09

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"Very backward, wet and dirty in school, quite untrained at home, is sent to school in a shocking state. Father 70-80. Mother, 40+, was father's housekeeper, became pregnant and persuaded him to marry her. Works on the smallholding, not bright but very nice. One sibling also illegitimate was killed. Filthy house. Is off with ringworm at present. No public assistance."

Relatives in survey: mother 16.132

Scope and Contents INTVEEs have no previous experience of local authority fee-paying schools. Male INTVEE told by colleagues that Craigmuir was out of the question, they tried Wardie and Trinity but there were no places until the child was tested and then a place was offered immediately. They describe children at Craigmuir and Ainslie Park as scruffy. They are shocked at the frequent use of belt. They think teaching at Trinity is narrow and rigid and deplore the lack of arts - "I don’t think they've ever heard...