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Headmaster of Bishopshalt is short, white-haired John Miles, M.A., LL.B. (Cambridge), a tolerant, popular scholar whose only teaching job is religious instruction to the older pupils. The classes are nondoctrinal "on the basis of the Bible" and are not demanded of Catholic and Jewish pupils whose parents object. Miles normally has a staff of some 15 men and 12 women teachers, all of whom must have honors degrees from a major university. Teachers' salaries conform to a national scale: for men, ?234 ($945) at start, ?480 ($1,939) maximum...
...pupils are divided into six forms (i.e., grades), and each form is subdivided into A, B and C groups-bright, average, slow. Upon completing the fifth form at about 16, pupils take an examination and may leave school if they wish-75% of Bishopshalt's pupils do. The remaining 25% may choose either 1) a one-year commercial course or 2) a two-year course which readies them for a university...
Discipline and Milk. Bishopshalt's curriculum is much like that of a good U.S. high school. All children must learn French, may add either German or Latin if their teachers think them good linguists. Art is required. So are cooking and sewing for girls, wood and metal work for boys...
After classes, Bishopshalt bustles like any U.S. school with clubs, sports, publications, dramatics. The children are well-mannered, alert to world affairs. The morning after the Beveridge Report appeared (it makes no provisions for schools), the headmaster was besieged with pupils' requests for copies...
...Majesty's Board. England and Wales have 1,800 secondary schools, more or less like Bishopshalt, enrolling 545,000. Below them are public elementary schools, free and compulsory for all children, not schooled elsewhere, between 5 and 14. Besides the 3,513,000 children in elementary schools, another 1,500,000 attend some 11,000 Voluntary Schools maintained by the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. These are dwindling...