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The hidden pathways and workrooms would often be filthy with human excrement, drug paraphernalia and other debris.

Public meetings grew tense, and according to one account from the time, a school superintendent barged into the English department’s workroom and scolded the teachers for championing “depressing” books.

Since Isaac often went with Jefferson when he hunted squirrels and partridge, or visited him in Monticello’s library and workrooms, he saw glimpses of Jefferson as the gentleman farmer and tinkerer.

Pupils in some affected schools have been unable to access design-and-technology workrooms, laboratories and other specialist spaces.

The workrooms contained metal lathes, hand tools and grey casings, but it was not possible to verify what had been made there.