§ Mr. GROVESasked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the report of his Department's inspector, B. S. Cornish, upon his visit to the Bridge Road girl's school, in the County Borough of West Ham. dated 4th May, 1925, and issued under the authority of the Board of Education on 25th May, wherein it is stated that the children attending this school are not of high mental ability; whether he is aware that night of the girls in attendance at this school have during this term succeeded in winning scholarships, thus indicating their mental ability to be of high standard; and what steps are taken by his Department to check the accuracy of his inspectors' reports?
§ Lord E. PERCYMy attention has been called to the report in question, but I am afraid I cannot accept the hon. Member's suggestion that the particular attainments of eight individual children in a department of nearly 400 affords any ground for doubting the accuracy of His Majesty's inspector's estimate of the general level of ability among the children in the department.