A curious story reaches me about impending legislation in regard
to non-provided schools in rural areas—or, for all I know, on a larger scale. The authority is the Rev. S. Morris, who is secretary of the Church Education Committee in the Coventry diocese. Objection is being taken there to the application of the Hadow scheme, involving the removal of children over eleven from a Church school to a Council school. School managers arc urged to resist this on the ground that " we have been promised fresh legislation which it is expected will place our voluntary schools in a much more favourable position," and it is added that " in view of this antici- pated legislation we shall be stronger the more schools we have." It would be very interesting to know who made the promise and what the nature of the rumoured legislation is. A revival of pre-War Education Bill religious controversies would be singularly unfortunate.
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