STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 29, sig. 109-1/33

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- 4 - these eyes were rebuilt since l939 and could be accessed the best Czech school buildings on the square. The ratios in this direction can be quite the comparison with the old kingdom. The equipping of the schools with mobile and teaching equipment is a very good, often excellent. Both the municipalities, as well as the Ministry and the People's Fund, have in recent years been made so plentiful for these purposes that every somewhat flexible schoolmaster could equip his school accordingly. Almost nowhere are beautiful libraries missing for teachers and pupils. As is well known, the system of the German Velkg and Hauptschulen dureh is supplemented by a system of student residences, which was originally created and administered by the Federation of German East and is now supervised by the HJ. As far as is known, it is also intended to involve the inspectors of the Reichsprotector in the supervision of the school homes. I do not think that the difficulties of teaching in the local area can be overestimated. In Brüinn-Stedt and in the language islands, children with poor language skills still form an exception, but in the scattered German regions they still form the rule, at least today, in the first classes. However, these are not children belonging to the protectorate, but mainly children of the wealthy from ethnic misehen or from such parents who had slipped into the Chechnya. There is no need for further discussion of the fact that teachers make great efforts to overcome the difficulties of speaking and to achieve the curriculum objective. If popular politics is to be pursued here, we cannot give up these children, nor do we point out the danger that the resulting visual activity of people who do not know the conditions will be condemned. By the way, it is only a transitional phenomenon here. As the knowledge of language generally increases rapidly, the visual acuity decreases from year to year. I hear that today Czech children in Brno City are changing from the Czech school to higher classes of the main pupils and are making good progress there. Some parents from the Old Kingdom have little understanding of these conditions, which are only driven by the concern that their children will not be adequately supported. It is already for moral reasons not possible to raise special German schools for children from the old Kingdom. Parents should simply decide to compensate for the inevitable loss of success by means of domestic tutoring.The curricula in force here correspond to the curricula of the old age, the constant concern of the district school inspectors must be to instruct teachers to implement these curricula under the local conditions. The training courses during the cold holidays, the convening of teachers, have been particularly difficult.