CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 488

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The subsidised schools are Private

Vernacular Schools in the New Territories where an

annual subsidy is given by the Government to each school.

Apart from these subsidised schools the only Vernacular schools which the Government aids are the 27 Grant Schools. They have an average attendance of 1,600. The Government has since the Education Ordinance was passed, also inspected the numerous private schools of the Colony, which have very greatly improved under the process.

There is however a strong demand among

the Chinese for more Vernacular education for the very poorest class of people.

I am of opinion that such provision can not be conveniently made by the existing machinery. And new machinery must be sought.

It will not be advisable to create a large number of Government Vernacular Schools. Such

schools have been tried in time past, and have failed, for many reasons. A Government school has to be kept to a standard which need not be looked for in a Chinese controlled undertaking; and the cost on buildings, equipment and staff will be very great in proportion to the services rendered. Further European rigidity acts harshly

on poor Chinese, and there are grave objections agninet employing persons of the stamp of the teachers of such schools as Revenue collectors, while the fees collected would total a trifling

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The Grant Schools which are managed by

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