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  <dc:title>Aberdeen Town Council Education Committee: Teachers' Letters (191)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Selection made from original letter binder (see series level for appraisal criteria):
- Grammar School: public air raid shelter in grounds; classroom arrangements; transport of valuable library books to King's College Library and other records to the Education Offices; request for Education Committee to consider employing a German Jew interned on the Isle of Man; request to consider L.E. Tyson, a professional cricketer, for groundsman vacancy; 
- Letters from William Cunningham/George Shiach/James Mackay/James Milligan/Thomas McCrea/David Sharp, re. arrangements after their being called up for military service; 
- Second World War measures at various schools including fire fighting arrangements; civil defence duties; and staff joining the Home Guard [these have only been kept where there are staff to list]; 
- Victoria Road School: blackout measures; 
- Torry Intermediate School: please for continuance of salary for unwell staff member; bags for spagnum moss [example from one school retained]; 
- Rosemount Junior Secondary: refusal to admit catholic pupil [named, DPA]; illegal employment of pupils [DPA]; treatment of pupil with "mental lethargy" [DPA]; plans for 1940/41 session;
- Torry Nursery School: proposed wage increase for playroom assistants; 
- Causewayend School: damage to school in air raid; 
- Ferryhill School: evidence of attainment for evacuee who had returned to Essex [DPA];
- St Mary's R.C. School: request for free supply of milk for some pupils;    
- Walker Road School: arrangements for shelters including duties of senior pupils; statement of conduct of John Morrison's services as a teacher, which refers to him slapping pupils;
- Westburn Road Special School: lists of clothing required by pupils;
- application for posts: David Levinson; Eva Stephen (her letter makes reference to men being called up leaving gaps in ranks + bombing in Bristol); 
- Woodside/Ruthrieston Junior Secondary School/St Clement St School: billeting scheme for families rendered homeless by enemy action;
- letter re. arrangements for those appointed to National Service posts;
- High School for Girls: investigation into a light being left on; review of Speech Training lessons; 
- Central Secondary School: teaching for pupil in hospital [DPA]; arrangements for female teacher whose husband, a science teacher, was called up for military service, and would therefore suffer a reduction in pay in line with the Town Council's policy on payment of wives; observations re. education of nursing trainees; 
- King St. School: ability test for pupil evacuated from Middlesex [DPA];
- Sunnybank School: pupils resident at Nazareth House [DPA];
- Powis Junior Sec. School: delays in completion of school buildings; membership of youth organisations; testing of entrants; 
- Seaton School: complaint about military authorities installing barbed wire in the playground.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>25 Jun - 1 Dec 1940</dc:date>
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