17 MAY 1902, Page 13

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "sescrAroa.1

SIR,—With reference to H. S. G.'s" letter in last week's Spectator, when a British school is taken over by a School Board the former management ceases absolutely, and the school passes under the direct control of the ratepayers. The Education Bill proposes that denominational schools should continue under the old private management, slightly altered. The two cases are therefore entirely different. In the former it is right that the entire cost of maintenance should be borne by the public; in the latter it is scarcely equitable that almost the whole burden should be so borne.—I am, Sir, &c., T. H. H.