low greasy
write with unsharpened slate pencils on slates frequently
to allow of legible writing, and finally the absence of any filter or filtered-writer for the boys,
things which it seems you do not consider it your duty to attend to or
bring
all these are
tc
to the Headmaster's
notice with sufficient perseverance and earnestness.
Again, I have failed to observe
any indication of any interest taken by the masters in the use of the playground by the
boys. Before expensive site was appropriated by the Government, special stress was laid on the absolute necessity of providing a large playground because of the opportunity
this extensive and
which it was said, it would afford
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afford to English-speaking boys to mix with Chinese boys
in English games, and it
was
expressly stated that English is learned on the playground
as well as inside the schoolroom. What
I have observed is that the
English-speaking boys (who have been mostly segregated in two distinct classes), keep
systematically aloof during the daily recess from the Chinese boys,
so that there is no
English speaking whatever in the hearing of the Chinese boys anywhere out of the schoolroom. I have heard of one
or two masters organizing school sports once
a year for a week or two, far away at the Happy Valley. But I have not
seen ...