Posted by Ed Kiser on October 29, 2013 at 15:12:04 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Lakeland Cam posted by Roger Wardale on October 29, 2013 at 10:20:51:
I have found two places in SA that "schoolroom" is mentioned.
In Chapter 29 of SA, Captain Flint has just give Titty the parrot's cage.
"Thank you very much indeed," said Titty. "I'll hang it up
in the schoolroom, ready for the parrot."
Then she realized the parrot was in that cage and that she would be getting both cage and parrot.
The other reference to "schoolroom" was in Chapter 23 of SA. As part of their preparing to have the Amazons finally get to join them camping on the island, and because he was sure they will already have had their oen names for all the places, he felt it a good idea to draw up a chart to show the places where they had been, and with the names that they wanted for these locations. He felt that under the conditions they had at that time that any chart they came up with would be just a preliminary sketch, but when they got home, they could then draw up a full sized chart.
"And we'll hang it up on the schoolroom wall to show where
we've been," said Susan.
In both of these references, they are talking about hanging something up on the wall of "the classroom". It would seem that to be able to hang something on the wall, that room would have to be one they had some control over, as perhaps, a room in their home that had been used to do their home study exercises. It that "classroom" were to be a room in some boarding school, they might not be able to tack something up on that kind of wall.
I had never associated the "home school" concept with these references to the "classroom" but on looking back at it, it does seem to support the home schooling concept as compared to the public school where they would go to live away from home.
However, it may be that this home schooling was not continued much beyond the SA year. In WH, when they were dealing with the effects of the mumps, they had a document to sign regarding their exposure to a disease such as mumps. That was not a document one would expect if "home schooling" was still being done. So perhaps by then, they were now in boarding school.
When John was first considering than they were not to be returning to their schools at the usual time, he did refer to a problem of missing out on a sports team, as:
"It's lucky it's not the football term," said John. "A month
might make just the difference about getting into the fifteen.
But anyhow, it'll be pretty awful coming back to find every-
body a whole month to windward and have all that leeway to
make up."
Now that does not sound like "home schooling" at all.
Perhaps the "home schooling" was done for the younger ones, for their first few school years, then as they got a bit older, were allowed to go on to a boarding school away from home.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky