Mr. KINGasked the President of the Board of Education how many resolutions of protest against the Holmes Circular, passed by public meetings during the last four months, have been received at the Board of Education?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Runciman)I have received about 140 resolutions which may be said, directly or indirectly, to protest against the Confidential Memorandum referred to. The great majority of these are said to have been passed at meetings of local associations of the National Union of Teachers, and only in about twenty cases is it indicated that the meeting was public. The resolutions are chiefly concerned with what they describe as a prevailing practice with regard to appointments and promotions. The practice, so far as the Board of Education is concerned, is purely imaginary, as I recently pointed out in this House.