HC Deb 15 December 1908 vol 198 cc1555-6
MR. BARRIE

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland where a National school under charge of a schoolmaster is closed and its pupils transferred to a school presided over by a schoolmistress, will he request the Commissioners to make arrangements whereby the disemployed schoolmaster will be transferred to the

Date. Wholly Boycotting. Partial Boycotting. Minor Boycotting. Total number of all cases of Boycotting.
Cases. Persons. Cases. Persons. Cases. Persons. Cases. Persons.
30th November, 1908 15 68 11 42 193 730 219 840

schools with which his late pupils are incorporated; and, failing that, will the Board continue the grant for a reasonable time, to give the displaced teacher a reasonable opportunity of finding other employment.

(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Commissioners of National Education inform me that, in the case of the amalgamation of adjoining boys' and girls' schools, it is their general practice to recognise the master of the boys' school as principal of the combined school, and the mistress of the girls' school as privileged assistant. In exceptional cases, however, it may happen that, owing to want of efficiency on the part of the master, the manager of the schools may not wish to appoint him as manager of the combined school. In such a case the master could not under the regulations in force be recognised as assistant teacher under a woman principal, and the Commissioners do not consider it desirable to alter their rules on that subject. Grants are not withdrawn from a school without reasonable notice to the manager.