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Annex 'F'
Communist Schools
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Inspections by Education Department
A survey conducted on a number of major communist schools has
revealed that the methods used to avoid detection vary only slightly from
The more
school to school. Each school has an "Inspection Drill" which is rehearsed
and practised much as a normal school practises fire drill.
important points of this drill are that when the Education Department
Inspector calls at the school, he is first shown into a reception room.
The Inspector is required to wait until the headmaster or other person in
authority appears and they then discuss school problems and affairs and the
registers are examined. Meanwhile, a teacher quickly visits all classrooms
where there are excess students or non-permitted teachers and warns them of
the impending inspection. The excess students and the non-permitted teachers
then leave the classroom and hide in a pre-determined location such as a
canteen, a playground, or a store-rocm.
Excess desks are moved aside and
placed against a wall as if they were not in use.
By the time the Inspector leaves the reception room and visits the
classrooms, he finds all is in order. Duplicate registers are kept in some
schools and care is taken to ensure that the same students leave the class-
room on each occasion so that the registers tally with those students who
remain. The desks and chairs stacked against the wall are easily explained
away as "spare". On the departure of the Inspector the excess students and
the non-permitted teachers return to their classrooms and the school resumes
normal working.
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