§ 26. Mr. HALL-CAINEasked the President of the Board of Education in what approximate proportion of primary and secondary schools, respectively, at the present time, physical training is carried out in special costumes as opposed to the ordinary clothes of the pupils; and in what proportion the physical training of boys is superintended by male instructors?
Mr. STANLEYI regret that the information in my possession does not enable me to reply to the first part of the question. The provision of special costumes for physical training is encouraged by the Board and is becoming more general. I have no information as to the proportion of schools in which boys are taught by male instructors. In elementary schools the instruction is given by the class-teachers who, in the case of senior boys' departments, would be men; in boys' secondary schools there is generally a male instructor on the staff.