"Evacuation was a Great Success." Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation?

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Bradley Reynolds 11P1                                                              08/05/2007              

                    “Evacuation was a Great Success.”

        Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation?

From the sources, you cannot tell if evacuation was a great success as there are many pros and cons.

Firstly, some say that evacuation wasn’t well organised, so when children arrived at their destination to be looked after, it was usually the cleaner and smarter children who where chosen first. This could have had an effect on the emotions of the children and they might of informed their parents, by knowing that they were unwanted.

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From Source A, we can see that children were excited about going to live in a new area for several months, as they might of thought they were going on holiday. But, just because they seemed happy, the parents might not of been, and instead, be worried for the lives of their children. This is a reliable Source, as it is a picture taken on the day children were walking to London station.

Source B shows an interview with a teacher that took place in 1988. We can see that from the teacher’s experience, evacuation was just as upsetting for ...

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