ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the nature of the atmosphere in a school, the friendliness or otherwise of pupils and teachers, and the admiration or detestation with which individual teachers are regarded, would be expected to exert a strong influence on the pupil's image of teachers in general, and more particularly have some effect on whether he or she chooses teaching as a career. A major difficulty is that some possibly valuable and perhaps surprising criteria, such as the incidence of juvenile delinquency (all schools), and illegitimate children and abortions (girls' and mixed schools), could affect the reputation of a school adversely, and heads, who naturally take a pride in their school, might vary considerably in their willingness to disclose records of this material even to research investigators. The present criterion was examined in only two of the enquiries, namely the schools project and the 'check' questionnaire, and the results for the girls are discussed.
