§ 59. Lieut.-Colonel HILDERasked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the decision to continue the attendance at school of children under the age of six, he will consider the advisability, in order to secure economy without detriment to the interests of these infants, of putting them in charge not of qualified teachers but of a special sub-class of teachers, or even of voluntary workers, in centres where the attendance justifies this, seeing that it would be possible to give suitable employment in this direction to war widows and, at the same time, effect economy?
§ Mr. FISHERI do not think that a system of staffing classes for little children, who require care and training rather than instruction, by means of certificated and uncertificated teachers, is necessary, and I am fully alive to the possibility of a more economical staffing of such classes.