The reopening of schools in many " reception " areas
this week comes as something of a godsend to harassed hosts with children billeted on them. Not that the children are displaying any special iniquity, but removed as they arz from customary discipline, whether that of the home or of the school, with all their time on their hands and habitual companionship removed considerably further geographically than it normally is, they inevitably constitute something of a problem. But it has been enormously eased by the fact that brilliant weather lasted right down to sunset of the day before the local schools opened their doors. All the same no one can regard the present arrangements as permanent. As an expedient for meeting a grave crisis they have, all things considered, served their purpose extremely well. For a long-range solution—and we are to prepare for a three-years war—something different is needed, and it must dearly be on communal lines, boarding-school life, in well-built camps, for elementary school children. The sooner plans for that are worked out the better. JANUS.
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