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them to see how we teach our students,” the principal said,
"If they object to our way of teaching...well, the matter is z ppen to debate," he said. There has been no cases of objavilon
"Our students are given character training first and scholastic pursuits second.
This is not to say that study is not important, in fact we are paying more attention now to achieving high educa- tional goal," he explained,
The school fees of Com- munist schools range from $30 to 540 a month half of that charged by non-Communist schools.
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school of about 1,000 pupils survive with these school fees without any back- ing?
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The principal said: have our methods of running a school under such tight budget ...and our method is even more successful than other privato schools.
"Firstly our teachers' salary is minimal," he said.
A Communist secondary school teacher gets about $300 to $400 a month which is about a quarter of the salary paid to a secondary school teacher in non-Communist schools.
"Secondly," he said, "we have our own school premises. "These cut down on current expenditure tremen- dously."
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Ho said the schools are problem-free from nagging teachers who demand salary increases.
"Our teachers are former pupils and they understand the circumstances existing in our schools," the principal CX- plained,
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For lunch, the schools provide cheap meals. For $1 the teachers can have a good lunch and save on his monthly
salary, the principal said.
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of graduate teachers and lack of space for expansion.
Most, if not all, of their graduate students have shunned teaching for an easier life and better pay as an office clerk, salesmen and other jobs.
But the students are always recruited by Communist-run or affiliated institutions such as banks, department stores limport-export fluns
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As a result Communist tenchers are running short.
Will teachers be brought in from China as a solution?
"No it, would Cause un- necessary problems," he said. "We'll have to train Our teachers and work harder."
The yearly enrolment is filling up the schools so rapidly that the Communist authorities are worried about the future expansion.
"Our schools presently can still hold the necessary number of pupils in a class but the future is worrying us.
"Rents here are just spiral- ling to a ridiculous height.
"But we have been running schools for more than 20 years and we think we can continue to expand despite these difficulties somehow.'
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However there are two major problems emerging for Communist schools here lack
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