§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been drawn to the following passage in the recently-published Report for 1893 of the Senior Chief Inspector on the schools in the Metropolitan Division, in which he stated that he regretted to be compelled to return to a subject to which he had already alluded in two previous Reports, the existence of classes in schools under the London Board so large that they cannot be efficiently controlled or taught by a single teacher, such as classes of 70, or 80, or even 90 scholars; and whether he will consider what steps shall be taken to enforce on the London Board the duty of adequately staffing the schools thus repeatedly reported upon?
§ MR. ACLANDThis subject has for a long time been under my consideration. The alteration in Article 73 of the Code made this year was made with a view of checking overgrown classes in London and elsewhere, and I hope that, together with the public notice which has been called to the matter, it will have the desired effect.