§ MR. COZENS-HARDY (Norfolk, N.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether 922 his attention has been called to the fact that girls are refused admittance to the Cromer Church School unless they wear white pinafores; and whether it is lawful, or in accordance with the Regulations of the Education Department, to turn away a child from a public elementary school upon the sole ground that its parents object to provide a particular costume?
§ *THE VICE PRESIDENT or THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordI am informed by the manager that no girl has ever been refused admittance to the Cromer Church School for not wearing a white pinafore: such a ground of exclusion would not constitute a reasonable excuse under Article 89 of the Code.