ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the constraints which helped to shape schooling practices in Croxteth during the first half-term. While the Action Committee fought its skirmishes in the local council and with the media in July and August, it also began to put out a call for volunteer teachers to come to help run the school in the autumn term. Cyril D’Arcy and Phil Knibb travelled about Liverpool and visited other cities to give talks about the campaign and to make it known that graduates were needed to teach in the school. One of the most fundamental constraints was the serious lack of teachers. The trickle of new volunteers arriving every few days was never enough to staff the school adequately. As new volunteers arrived, others left, finding after only a few days that the situation was too trying for them. Too few teachers was a fundamental constraint which faced the staff, resulting in many secondary constraints and problems.