Different opinions of people throughout the evacuation

There are several groups of people whose opinions on evacuation you could refer to in the course of your answer. There are of course the children themselves, the teachers, the medical staff that travelled with sick children, the parents who travelled with younger children, the officials who were responsible for the evacuations and the families with whom the evacuees were billeted. Remember also that there were three periods of evacuation during the war. You should …

…friends and they have 'second' families away from home. However there is now new research by historians, which shows that for a SMALL MINORITY of evacuees it was unpleasant. They were bullied in rural schools, they lived with people who they didn't know, and sometimes they were in families, which were either a lot richer or poorer than their own. Unfortunately a small number of evacuees were exposed to physical and emotional abuse as well.