THE EDUCATIONAL LADDER.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I
SIR,—Your article on "The Educational Ladder" in last week's issue is excellent. "We should like to see the length of school- time made much more dependent than it is on the use to which it is put." That exactly describes what many of us school managers feel : we ought to have a discretionary power with regard to the time when a child after the age of twelve should leave school. There are boys and girls who are obviously fitted for farm and domestic service, and are wishful to enter upon it. These children learn very little by remaining at school after the age of twelve, and they become less fitted for, and less inclined for, the work that they are evidently most capable of doing. There are some striking instances in our school at the present time, and the Board of Education would be taking a wise step if they would empower managers to deal with such cases.—I am, Sir, &c., T. J. RIDER. Baschurch Vicarage, Shrewsbury.
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