§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, If his attention has been called to the dismissal from a school at Turriff, Aberdeenshire, of a boy for wearing the blue ribbon; and, whether he can give instructions from the Department to restrain teachers from acting in this way in future?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe school board of Turriff report that a boy was expelled for insubordination, and not for wearing a blue ribbon. They have notified to the parents that the boy might return to school on condition that the insubordination should not be repeated; and it was not made a condition of re-admission that the boy should cease to wear a blue ribbon. It is now well understood that managers have no right to expel or refuse admission to children because of their wearing the blue ribbon; and we constantly act on this principle.