ABSTRACT
Over the past 30 years, a wide variety of models for 'community schooling' have been developed within comprehensive education, the term having even more meanings than the word 'comprehensive' itself. By 1970 the number of Leicestershire community colleges had grown steadily into double figures. Developments were taking place all the time so each phase was not discrete. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the pace of development and addition of new colleges increased markedly. Hitherto, the senior community appointment had been at head of department or assistant principal level and paid on further education pay scales. Some community teachers were appointed as 'across-the-board' heads of department, a clumsy but fairly graphic title. Since 1944, despite all the plethora of legislation, there has been no significant reference to community schooling and no enabling legislation leading to a universal and vigorous system of community schools.
