When its frosts get at the noses, and fingers, and sometimes the bare toes, of the children it leaves them neither green nor orange but simply blue.

Then again other schools, especially in Belfast, are shamefully over-crowded.

Classes are held on the stairs, in the cloak-room, the hall, or the yard.

For the more fortunate, class-rooms are provided with an air-space per individual only slightly less than that available in the Black Hole of Calcutta.

All over the country, children go to school breakfastless and stupid with hunger, and the local authorities have no power to feed them as in England, and in most European countries.