THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH'S BILL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1
SIB,—Are you quite sure that informed moderate opinion is in favour of the Bishop of St. Asaph's proposal in its entirety ? I greatly doubt whether those responsible for the inside management of schools, by which I mean the mass of county and borough administrators and school managers, are so. 1 fancy that if these could be polled, you would find a wide- spread dread of importing this controversy, at present con- fined to politicians, into the sacred precincts of the school, from which it has so far been absent. Do the teachers want it P Do the parents ? My experience is that few of these are anxious to "pen and label" the children into the far corners of the schoolroom. It would introduce for certain hours teachers from the outside,—teachers to whom the children are not accustomed, teachers possibly not skilled in teaching or in the delicate art of control, possibly not themselves amenable to the discipline of the head teacher. I wish to point out that a general "right of entry" into all schools has dangers of its own which cannot be charged against the grant of " facilities " to the one denomination hitherto responsible for a non-provided school. The latter is a price which might fairly be paid for platform peace ;
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