The reminder by the Board of Education that school attendance
is as much required of refugee children as of any others is no doubt right and timely, but it is obvious that children of ten or twelve speaking no English can get singularly little benefit from an ordinary elementary school. In Surrey the problem is being solved in a better way, thanks to a good deal of local generosity. A house has been taken near Albury, where a small boarding-school for Sudeten German boys up to about fourteen has been started this week. There are only eight boys to begin with, and a staff of four—two German and one English masters and one English mistress—all fully qualified, the Germans being themselves refugees. Teaching is partly in German, partly in English, and some local Boy Scouts are helping with games and physical exercises. A similar school for older Sudeten German boys is being opened in London.
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