World War 2EducationMost children from urban areas were expected to move to the rural areas, mainly to the fact of the Germans wanting to bomb more the cities of London. But there was a problem with moving the children to the country sides. Which was, without children there would be no schools to teach them; and that was what happened duringthe world war. Many schools in the cities closed down during those periodsof times. However, only half of the children (like roundabout million children) stay in their hometown, this meant that now they were without a school.

Schools in rural areas remained open but they often had to share their facilities with the evacuees. This meant the introduction of the double shift system. This involved local children using the classrooms in the morning while the evacuees would attend school in the afternoon.few British children had ever travelled outside Britain. If they had a holiday, most went to the seaside or the country. In a typical family, dad

worked while mum looked after the home.Most young people left school at 14, and started work.

Rationing

Food rationing began in 1940. This meant each person could buy only a fixed amount of certain foods each week.There were no supermarkets. You went todifferent shops for different items. For fruit and vegetables, you went to the greengrocer. For meat, to the butcher. For fish, to the fishmonger. For bread and cakes, to the baker. For groceries such as jam, tea, biscuits and cheese you went to the grocer. Other shops sold clothes, shoes, medicines, newspapers and all the otherthings people needed to buy. In most shops, the shopkeeper or shop assistants served customers from behinda counter. Many shops were small familybusinesses. Most big towns had department stores. Even though most of Britain's food camefrom other countries in ships. Enemy

submarines sank so many ships sadly there was a shortage of some foods meanwhile there was not enough to go round. Rationing made sure everyone gota fair share. You had to hand over coupons from your ration book, as well as money, when you went shopping. When you had used up your ration of one food(say, cheese or meat), you

could not buy any more that week. Vegetarians could swap meat coupons forother foods. Furthermore, people had to register with local shops to use their ration books. Often long queues formed as soonas people heard that shops had more supplies. The first foods rationed werebacon, sugar, tea, butter and meat. Lots more foods were rationed later, including sweets! One egg a week was the ration in 1941. There were no

bananas, so younger children did not see their first banana until the war ended. With eggs rationed, people trieddried egg powder. One packet was equal to 12 fresh eggs. Dried egg made good scrambled eggs, but it was bad luck if you only liked eggs fried or boiled. Unfamiliar foods appeared too, such as Spam (tinned meat) from America, and fish from South Africa. But not all food was rationed Potatoes, so you could make your own chips - if you could find some oil or fat to cook themin. In summer, people were asked to eatmore salads, to save cooking fuel.But it wasn’t just food that got rationed, clothes were too, so clothingfactories switched to war work. Paper, petrol and other things, such as soap (one bar a month) and washing powder, were also rationed.