TV Interview for BBC (Thomas Calton School)
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Unknown |
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| Editorial comments: | Item listed by date of broadcast. MT was interviewed about a demonstration outside the DES by teachers and pupils from Thomas Calton Comprehensive School in Peckham, who wanted their school rebuilt. See, e.g., The Times, 11 February 1972. See also The Teacher, 18 February 1972: "She [MT] later appeared on television to explain that the school could be rebuilt if seven primary school rebuilding programmes were scrapped in the same area. Mrs Thatcher said she would then have pupils and teachers from those schools marching up and down outside her door protesting at that decision". |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | nil |
| Themes: | Education, Primary education, Secondary education |