50. The total number of boys enrolled in the four Lower Grade schools was 418 as compared with 423 in 1930.
51. Since 1929 the Education Department has been indebted to the Pok Ngoi Hospital at Un Long for housing the provided English school while the new building was being erected. This was opened on October 27 by Hon. Dr. Tso. A pleasing feature of the ceremony was the presentation of congratulatory addresses from local vernacular schools.
52. The three rural English schools were established with the intention of giving a wider opportunity to the country boy but they present a problem which is not peculiar to this colony. It is not practicable to confine attendance to boys who, by their economic circumstances or their ability to win scholarships, will continue their English education elsewhere to the stage where it becomes of cultural value. The risk has to be taken of imparting that proverbially dangerous modicum of English which provides a way out of one vocation, for which a boy is by nature fitted, without facilitating his entry into another and wider sphere of usefulness.
53. In 1930 a Class 5 was opened in Cheung Chau school at the request of the people of the village. As the standard attained did not correspond with that in the similarly numbered class in the provided urban schools, whither, on account of its insular position, those Cheung Chau boys who continue their English education must necessarily betake themselves, this class was closed at the end of 1931. The Board of Education has recommended that this class shall not be restored until it is shown that the class immediately below attains the standard of the similar class in urban schools.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS-VERNACULAR.
54. The examination results at the Vernacular Middle School at the end of 1931 were disappointing.
55. The Vernacular Normal School for Women, which has two Higher Primary classes followed by a division preparatory to the four years of the Normal course, makes no provision for the four Lower Primary years and girls are admitted to Higher Primary I from outside schools. The grounding of these younger girls is not so good as it might be, and I recommend extension of the school by addition of the four Lower Primary classes but it is clear that as long as the school occupies the present premises any such extension is out of the question.
56. A further disability arising from the present unsatisfactory housing of this important institution, the only one of its kind in the colony, is that it is impossible to provide the physical training which, not only very desirable for the girls as
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50. The total number of boys enrolled in the four Lower Grade schools was 418 as compared with 423 in 1930.
51. Since 1929 the Education Department has been indebted to the Pok Ngoi Hospital at Un Long for housing the provided English school while the new building was being erected. This was opened on October 27 by Hon. Dr. Tso. A pleasing feature of the ceremony was the presentation of congratulatory addresses from local vernacular schools.
52. The three rural English schools were established with the intention of giving a wider opportunity to the country boy but they present a problem which is not peculiar to this colony. It is not practicable to confine attendance to boys who, by their economic circumstances or their ability to win scholarships, will continue their English education elsewhere to the stage where it becomes of cultural value. The risk has to be taken of impar- ting that proverbially dangerous modicum of English which provides a way out of one vocation, for which a boy is by nature fitted, without facilitating his entry into another and wider sphere of usefulness.
53. In 1930 a Class 5 was opened in Cheung Chaú school at the request of the people of the village. As the standard attained did not correspond with that in the similarly numbered class in the provided urban schools, whither, on account of its insular position, those Cheung Chau boys who continue their English education must necessarily betake themselves, this class was closed at the end of 1931. The Board of Education has recommended that this class shall not be restored until it is shown that the class immediately below attains the standard of the similar class in urban schools.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS-VERNACULAR.
54. The examination results at the Vernacular Middle School at the end of 1931 were disappointing.
55. The Vernacular Normal School for Women, which has two Higher Primary classes followed by a division preparatory to the four years of the Normal course, makes no provision for the four Lower Primary years and girls are admitted to Higher Primary I from outside schools. The grounding of these younger girls is not so good as it might be, and I recommend extension of the school by addition of the four Lower Primary classes but it is clear that as long as the school occupies the present premises any such extension is out of the question.
56. A further disability arising from the present unsatis- factory housing of this important institution, the only one of its kind in the colony, is that it is impossible to provide the physical training which, not only very desirable for the girls as
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