1909 Primary School Admissions

[stevenroyals]

Hi

Some of my relatives went to Glenelg Primary school in around 1909. There are a few terms used on the form which I am not familiar with.

On one form it had a column witht he heading 'under compulsion'. some students had a blank space and others had the letter 'c' written in the column. Does anyone know what this means?

In another column it had 'Last School'. A few of the entries had a number of different schools written in. There was a couple of entries which said 'Glenelg ruled off'. Does anyone know what this means?

Thanks
Steve

[MUMMYG]

In 1900 the Board of Education in England wanted all children to stay at school until age 14 but still allowed the majority to leave at 12 or 13 to start manual labouring jobs as poor working class parents did not see education past the basic 3R's as relevant to the childrens future employment. Maybe the column headed compulsion refers to this, I cant help with the second part of your query but can give you a link which is very informative.

http://www.know-britain.com/general/education_in_england_1.html