EDUCATIONAL ECONOMIES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
none of the letters which you have published on economies in our boys' Public Schools has there been a reference to the subject of catering. While hundreds of girls yearly receive diplomas in cooking and catering from our excellent Domestic Science Centres, why do the various houses of our Public Schools not avail themselves of these trained women ? They would save in every way, get a far greater variety of diet of the right sort, and probably better cooked, than is provided in most schools ; also the parents would be relieved of that most unnecessary extra, the tuck box."
The necessity of buying food, such as eggs and butter, which exists in some schools, is a scandal ; and should a complaint be made by a parent, the boy ,suffers, nothing is done and so the evil continues. If the girls in our large schools are properly fed and have never needed a tuck box, it would seem possible to provide enough for the boys too : and ,surely the tuck box is an antiquated and tiresome extra
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