Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, c. 1870-1950 by Hester Barron & Claudia Siebrecht

Author:Hester Barron & Claudia Siebrecht
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Expectations of state involvement had also changed. The relationship between citizens and state had been altered by war service and was then further transformed by the suffrage reforms of 1918 and 1928. Mass unemployment brought additional questions about the reciprocal obligations of government and public. The unemployment rate for London as a whole was much lower than in many other parts of interwar Britain, but areas of severe deprivation still necessitated state aid.

This chapter explores the nature of interactions between parents and schools in interwar London, examining the contested intersection at which parenting was seen to end and the responsibility of the teacher to begin. By these years, the reach and ambition of the London County Council (LCC) had expanded considerably since the earliest days of the London School Board and the capital boasted arguably the most sophisticated educational apparatus in the country. Perhaps most importantly, the principle of compulsory elementary education, laid down some forty years earlier, was widely accepted by families in which parents (and probably grandparents) had themselves experienced state education. Instead, controversy had shifted into how far a school’s responsibilities extended beyond the school gates into issues around children’s well-being and wider upbringing.

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