Figure 1.-- There were major changes in the facilities at British prtep schools in the 1970s and 80s. We believe that one of the major reasons for these changes was the arrival of girls at formerly all boy schools.
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Figure 1.-- There were major changes in the facilities at British prtep schools in the 1970s and 80s. We believe that one of the major reasons for these changes was the arrival of girls at formerly all boy schools. |
Private schools varied greatly in the facilities they offered any many had more limited facilties than those offered at state schools. This included both educational facilities and boarding accomodations. We were indeed surprised at the limited facilities and often very stark living facilities at many school. This had begun to change in the 1980s, but classroom facilities and dorimotory accomodations at many schools were not infrequently stark. Many children had nothing more than an army cot and battered chair in dormitories with beds lined up in a row. This had begun to change. There were schools with much more comfortable facilities. One factors here were the girls. Mothers often insisted in more comfortable dormitories and the schools could not very well provide facilities to the girls that were not provided the boys. At the school here, girls had just been accepted and they had brand new dormitories. The school had not yet upgraded the facilities for the boys who were complining about the inequity of the situation. Notice how stark the accomodations were. Here we do not mean to suggest that this was not a good school achieving excellent results. It does, however illustrate, the attitude toward dormitory facilities thar were once widespread among preparatory schools.
