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of employment, describing the wealth of educational opportunity provided in London. A few parents' councils exist in England in connection with public secondary days schools, but these do not compare in any sense with the powerful parent-teacher associations of America. The English parents’ council, where it exists, has usually been formed on the initiative of the headmaster or headmistress; its function is to arrange parents’ meetings, at which some well known educationist or the headmaster or headmistress addresses the gathering on a subject of intetest to parents. Discussion is invited, but it is for animated discussion to arise. An exception is the parents' Association (56. Manchester Street, London, W) which is concerned with the interest of parents sending chiidren to public, preparatory and private schools all over the country. The formation of this association was due to the parental initiative, and schoolmasters and schoolmistresses while welcomed as associate members and often invited as speakers, have no -voice in its councils. The Parent’ National Educational Union (26, Victoria Street, London, S W.) exists mainly for the purpose of furthering the ideals and methods of Miss. Charlotte Mason, its late founder. This union, better known as the “P N.E.U.,’’ publishes The Parents' Review and ..conducts what is known as the ‘‘P.U.S.” or Parents’ Union School, a scheme hy which children can work in home school rooms and be exaimined on a common syllabus. While, no doubt, many of the members of governing bodies of English schools are parents, there has been no general movement towards appointing them as such on these bodies. In 1927 ..a parent of a boy in the school was elected to the
