A BOARDING-SCHOOL FOR WORKING MEN'S CHILDREN.
[To 72£ EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
&u,—We beg to draw your attention to an experimental boarding- school recently started for the children of working men. It was the Outcome of seven years' work as a day school in St. Pancras, and is an attempt to give a modern education under ideal condi- tions to children of the artisan class. It is controlled by a Council, the Chairman of which is Professor T. P. Nunn. The parents contribute weekly payments according to their income, but the bulk of the money is raised by voluntary subscriptions. We have forty children in residence, ranging from three to ten years, there is little class teaching, and every effort is made to teach the children to work for and by themselves, according to their special ability. They lead a simple, strenuous country life, and take their share in the work of house and garden. It is proposed to keep them at school until the State leaving age, when they will be drafted into secondary schools, or into any class of work for which they seem specially fitted. That the need for such a school is felt by the intelligent artisan class is shown by the number of applications we have received, and by tile large proportion of their incomes the parents are willing to contribute. Further particulars may be had from the Secretary, Charlton, East Sutton, near Maidstone.—We are, Sir, &c., PHTLI IS M. POTTER, LEILA M. BENDEL (Hon. Directors).
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