Figure 1.-- The children here look about 11 years old. Ths is a bit difficult to tell. Some of the children look younger and some older, so 11 seems to us to be a good guess. This is the age that children were separated with the more academically clever going to a secondary school. |
The children here look about 11 years old. Ths is a bit difficult to tell. Some of the children look younger and some older, so 11 seems to us to be a good guess. This is the age that children were separated with the more academically clever going to a secondary school. The less academically clever stayed in primary schools for a few more years. Theoretically this division was made on academic nility, but social class was a major factor, in part because of the parents and the extent they guided and assisted the children. Finances were another factor. There were fees associated with secondary schools and many working class families could use the wages a youth could earn. Thus most middle-class children attended secondary school while working-class children did not advance beyounf primary school.
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