Unwillingly to school... Mr. H.J. Coulter, the School Board officer, and Mr. Alfred Compigne, clerk to the Board, preferred a charge against Benjamin Pratt, of Berkhampstead, for neglecting to send his boy, Theodore, regularly to school during the past six months. Mr. Coulter said Pratt had been fined once before for a like offence, and that he had told Mrs. Pratt that proceedings would be taken if the boy, who was 12 years of age, did not attend school. Mrs. Pratt said the boy had been cow keeping, at 2s.6d. a week, for a month, and she asked for him to go to school as a half-timer. The Chairman informed her that she must see the School Board about that, as she was bound to send her child to school. She must pay 2s. The School Board officer said they did not mind paying 2s. if they could earn 4s. by staying away. The money was paid. (Bucks Herald, Nov 1874).
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