§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is aware that, on the 13th of February, at the National School at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, which is in receipt of a Government grant, the 1152 schoolmaster, who acts as secretary to the local branch of the Primrose League, distributed a number of copies of political speeches of a highly controversial character, printed under the auspices of the Woodbridge Division Conservative Association, among the boys of his own standard, and among the monitors of the other standards, for circulation, expressing at the same time the wish that the parents should read the publications in question; whether practices of that kind meet with the sanction of the Education Department; and whether any steps will be taken to prevent their recurrence?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordIt would, of course, be very wrong for teachers to utilise their position in school for Party objects; but I am informed that the schoolmaster in question is not secretary of the local branch of the Primrose League, and that he handed the speeches to the boys after school hours upon his own responsibility.