ENGLISH PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
37. During the year 21 Boys' Schools (4 Day and 17 Night) and 1 Girls' Day School closed their doors, and 27 new Boys' Schools (6 Day and 21 Night) were opened.
38. The total number of Schools open was:- Day Schools, - 2 Girls' and 24 Boys'; Night Schools, - 50 Boys'; with a maximum enrolment of 39 girls and 1,555 boys in the Day Schools, and 1,537 boys in the Night Schools, making a total of 3,131 pupils.
39. These figures include 2 Exempted Schools, - the Catholic Seminary, a Day School with 20 students training for the priesthood, and a Night School maintained by the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company for the instruction of some of their Chinese employees, with 56 in attendance.
40. The education given in most of the schools is still of a very elementary character. Methods of teaching show a slight improvement, but very few of the teachers have received any training. Discipline is generally good. Monthly Attendance Reports are furnished by all schools.
VERNACULAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
41. During the year 95 Private Day Schools were registered including one exempted school, a girls' sewing school at Wanchai. The number of new schools is 2 less than in 1917 and 17 over the number in 1916. 64 Day Schools closed, of which 14 were struck off and 21 disappeared without any notification.
42. There are now 346 Private Day Schools (including 3 exempted schools) as against 315 at the end of 1917. Of these, 6 are placed under Class A, 247 under Class B, and 90 under Class C. In the 6 Class A schools, the teaching is of a fairly high standard - up to Standard VI in all, and, in some cases, up to Chung Hok Standard - and on modern lines. These schools are all well housed with adequate apparatus and suitable staff. The biggest of the 6 has 263 on the roll, 3 of them have an average attendance of over 110 in each, and 2 have over 70. Under Class B, there are 2 kinds of schools, i.e., those where the teaching is of as high a standard as in the Class A schools, but is old-fashioned and the lower standards are usually much neglected, and those which are generally found to be in order and where the teaching, though of an elementary nature, is on modern lines and produces satisfactory results. Of the Class C schools, those in the central part of the Colony are usually barely efficient and are not bad enough to be struck off. The worst schools are mostly found in the out-lying places like Aberdeen, Shamshuipo, and Shaukiwan, where one cannot expect too much from the teachers who are paid very poorly. Thus it is difficult to get rid of all the inefficient schools.
43. The number of Grant Schools stands now at 26, one managed by the London Mission having been struck off the Grant List at the beginning of the year. Steps are being taken to put on the Grant List some of the schools managed by the Confucian Society and by the Tung Wa Hospital.
ENGLISH PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
37. During the year 21 Boys' Schools (4 Day and 17 Night) and 1 Girls' Day School closed their doors, and 27 new Boys' Schools (6 Day and 21 Night) were opened.
38. The total number of Schools open was:-Day Schools,-2 Girls' and 24 Boys'; Night Schools,-50 Boys'; with a maximum enrolment of 39 girls and 1,555 boys in the Day Schools, and 1,537 boys in the Night Schools, making a total of 3,131 pupils.
39. These figures include 2 Exempted Schools,-the Catholic Seminary, a Day School with 20 students training for the priest- hood, and a Night School maintained by the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company for the instruction of some of their Chinese employees, with 56 in attendance.
40. The education given in most of the schools is still of a very elementary character. Methods of teaching shew a slight improvement, but very few of the teachers have received any training. Discipline is generally good. Monthly Attendance Re- ports are furnished by all schools.
VERNACULAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
41. During the year 95 Private Day Schools were registered including one exempted school, a girls' sewing school at Wanchai. The number of new schools is 2 less than in 1917 and 17 over the number in 1916. 64 Day Schools closed, of which 14 were struck off and 21 disappeared without any notification.
42. There are now 346 Private Day Schools (including 3 exempted schools) as against 315 at the end of 1917. Of these, 6 are placed under Class A, 247 under Class B, and 90 under Class C. In the 6 Class A schools, the teaching is of a fairly high standard- up to Standard VI in all, and, in some cases, up to Chung Hok Standard--and on modern lines. These schools are all well housed with adequate apparatus and suitable staff. The biggest of the 6 has 263 on the roll, 3 of them have an average attendance of over 110 in each, and 2 have over 70. Under Class B, there are 2 kinds of schools, ie, those where the teaching is of as high a standard as in the Class A schools, but is old fashioned and the lower standards are usually much neglected, and those which are generally found to be in order and where the teaching, though of an elementary nature, is on modern lines and produces satisfactory results. Of the Class C schools, those in the central part of the Colony are usually barely efficient and are not bad enough to be struck off. The worst schools are mostly found in the out-lying places like Aberdeen, Shamshuipo, and Shaukiwan, where one cannot expect too much from the teachers who are paid very poorly. Thus it is difficult to get rid of all the inefficient schools.
43. The number of Grant Schools stands now at 26, one man- aged by the London Mission having been struck off the Grant List at the beginning of the year. Steps are being taken to put on the Grant List some of the schools managed by the Confucian Society and by the Tung Wa Hospital.
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