Another letter was read from Mr F. Webb-Jones, who complained of the "keeping-in" of one of his children, by Mrs Field during play time, the dinner hour, and after the hour of the dosing of the school, sometimes for half-an hour at a time. He stated that Mrs Field was not the only teacher at the Girls' School that transgressed the in structions of the Committee, who, f he understood, had objected' to "keeping in," and added that there must be some thing deficient in the teachers or else the system of ''cram" was responsible and needed abolishing. ' Mrs Field, in reply to questions, ad mitted that children were kept in. Sue, however, was not the only teacher that did so, and she often left dozens of chil dren behind in the school when she' went home. She was willing to stop the practice if the others did, IJut was not going to be the scapegoat for the others. She had -put up with, a great deal, and intended now to ' make a stand. The children were kept in be cause they misbehaved or failed fd do their work, and Mr Jones' child had re mained behind in the school-ground waiting for her sisters, when she could have, gone home. She (Mrs Field) did" not remain behind in" the school t for recreation or for the love of tho tiling.
