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Mr. Bernard Johnson - Headmaster by Admin
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Mr. Lou Portno - Deputy Head

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Lou Portno commenting in the last issue of the Accringtonian...

Never let it be said that the Grammar School was interested exclusively in the academically able. No boy at school was ever condemned, nor should be,because of a lack of ability, and this has always been the policy of successive headmasters & staff. A boy was never censured for inability, but only for unwillingness. It has always been recognised in the school that some boys can never do well in certain subjects, nor , occasionally in all of them. But as long as they give of their best and make every effort then they are given every encouragement and praise, and more often than not such boys will start to improve.

Furthermore, never,never let it be said that the Grammar School educates only the sons of the middle-classes, whatever the term may mean today. From my own knowledge of the home circumstances of many of my old pupils, this is patently untrue. Moreover,some years ago, long before the era of wage-packets of £60 to £100 a week, I had occasion to consult the School Entry Registers in order to discover the addresses of some old boys. Among the relevant information about each boy was an entry giving the occupation of the father. In the majority of cases these entries read monotonously 'labourer,labourer.cotton operative,caretaker,labourer etc'

Lou Portno, Deputy Headmaster

Reproduced with kind permission from 'An Accrington Mixture' by Bob Dobson [ISBN 1 872895 26 3]

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