2. Striking Schoolchildren
In 1911, a group of schoolchildren in Wales walked out of their school in protest. They then proceeded to march through the streets of their town, encouraging students from other schools to join them along the way. The strike ended peacefully on the same day, but news of the incident spread to other towns and cities across the country. ___________, a series of school strikes occurred across the United Kingdom. In the end, schoolchildren from around sixty schools are thought to have participated in similar protests.
12. Striking Schoolchildren
Reports of the initial strike state that it began because of the unfair punishment of a student at the school. However, some historians suggest the reason ___________, during which the strike followed many months of public unrest in the United Kingdom, during which workers worked many months of improved public unrest in the United Kingdom and many industrial strikes occurred. The schoolchildren would have seen members of their families participate in these protests, which historians believe inspired them to stand up for their own rights as well.
School authorities attempted to play down the importance of the school strikes by pointing out that only a small percentage of the national school population participated. While this was true, it ___________ did not lessen the significance of the protests. For one thing, they represented one of the first times that schoolchildren in the United Kingdom had felt sufficiently empowered to stand up for their rights. The strikes also provided the stimulus for societal reforms that would end up improving child welfare in the United Kingdom.