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Annex 'F'

Communist Schools

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Inspections by Education Department

A survey conducted on a number of major communist schools has

revealed that the methods used to avoid detection vary only slightly from

The more

school to school. Each school has an "Inspection Drill" which is rehearsed

and practised much as a normal school practises fire drill.

important points of this drill are that when the Education Department

Inspector calls at the school, he is first shown into a reception room.

The Inspector is required to wait until the headmaster or other person in

authority appears and they then discuss school problems and affairs and the

registers are examined. Meanwhile, a teacher quickly visits all classrooms

where there are excess students or non-permitted teachers and warns them of

the impending inspection. The excess students and the non-permitted teachers

then leave the classroom and hide in a pre-determined location such as a

canteen, a playground, or a store-rocm.

Excess desks are moved aside and

placed against a wall as if they were not in use.

By the time the Inspector leaves the reception room and visits the

classrooms, he finds all is in order. Duplicate registers are kept in some

schools and care is taken to ensure that the same students leave the class-

room on each occasion so that the registers tally with those students who

remain. The desks and chairs stacked against the wall are easily explained

away as "spare". On the departure of the Inspector the excess students and

the non-permitted teachers return to their classrooms and the school resumes

normal working.

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