L.C.C. CONTINUATION SCHOOLS
Snt,—In the March roth issue of your paper, under the title "Rugby School," there appears the statement: "A few local authorities, including the L.C.C., made hopeful starts, but by the early 1920's they had changed to a voluntary basis or collapsed altogether."
Your readers and Mrs. Jacquetta Hawkes should be informed that the L.C.C. did not open its compulsory day continuation schools until January, 1921, and that they did not " collapse " until June, x922.
The word " collapse " is unfortunate and unjust: they were closed because their existence became a political issue at the municipal elections and because the contiguous Education Authorities refused to put the Continuation School Clauses of the Education Act, 1918, into operation.
I was the organiser of these Schools for London, and I write with
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