7.
3.
The retardation expressed in the foregoing paragraphs on
the 10+ age group refers to the average for all subjects. But in
certain subjects, particularly Science, French, History and Geography,
in that order, the standard is as much as two to five years below
normal, due to lack of instruction in these subjects or to too narrow
a syllabus. In all cases, the most damage appears to have been done in
the age groups 12 18; with these older children it will be, of course,
more difficult to rectify.
8.
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In the younger children, below the age of ten, there does not
appear to have been any damage which is not capable of being repaired.
Those who are one to three years behind actual English standard are children
who have never been to school at all, or those who are learning English
for the first time, or mentally defective children. Very few children
in this age group were interned.
9.
With reference to the middle sub-paragraph of para. 3, page
4, of Miss Anderson's memorandum of 18th October, 1945, it would seem that
with children who are 5 12 years old at the present time we can look
forward to the future with confidence. While those in the higher age
With the
groups who were interned may be permanently retarded there is no
reason to suppose that they will not make good and useful citizens.
return of normal conditions, whatever loosening of social and moral standards
occurred during internment, it is quickly being eliminated in all but a few
who, in any case, would have had a lower moral and social attitude towards
life than is normally the case. The effect of the last two terms on the
Excellent results, children at Central British School is self-evident.
keen competition and good sportsmanship were exhibited at the annual sports
and in games against other schools,
10.
It is felt that the opinions expressed in Miss Anderson's
memorandum were perhaps coloured to a certain extent by the fact that she
herself had been four years in internment.