Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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The Relationship Between Parents and Schools
There were various things that that might cause friction between schools and parents corporal punishment is probably the most common one. There's also tensions over cleanliness and again that's something that trespasses on the role of the whole home in the family. The suggestion that a school has good relationships with his parents are much more common than the opposite. Parents appear in school life in all sorts of ways so mothers might make costumes for school plays or they send in fruit for harvest festivals or fathers come in to help decorate a school hall, she says.
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