Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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English Translation

The Czech language is adapted to enable compulsory schooling to be completed in its entirety, and according to Section 2, the burgher school with the Czech language of teaching is chosen by the school. It is four-class and joins the fourth consecutive general school year. The municipal school was declared selective and only 35 percent of pupils who attended the fourth grade of the general school were allowed to be admitted to the first year under the implementing regulations. In Praxi, this regulation meant the only one thing about the majority of žactva was refused to be educated at higher schools than the general schools. At the same time, the number of pupils in classes from the original 45 to 60 increased and, on the contrary, in municipalities with the German majority, Czech single-class schools with fewer than 20 pupils were abolished. The collective deployment of pupils and students on agricultural work (plants of potatoes and hops, harvests) was also particularly adversely involved in the educational work in the Czech schools (bones, paper, rubber, iron, seeds of forest trees, pits of some fruit trees). The original four types of secondary schools (gymnasium, real grammar school, reform-real grammar School and real school) were gradually reduced to two grammar schools and a real high school. banned their studies at grammar schools; they were newly created a girls' real grammar school, where Latin was replaced first by a living language and later subjects preparing students for marriage and maternity. The reduction in the number of Czech secondary schools and directly related number of students was indeed radical. While in the four basic types of Czech secondary schools, 89,558 students studied in the school year 1939/1940, in the year 1943/1944, there were only 42 838, i.e. less than half of them. (413) Of course, even teachers were affected by the reduction of numbers. The requirement of a perfect knowledge of the German language for higher administrative officials and their equals of officials of self-government corporations and public officials became a requirement. 15 percent of high school professors in Bohemia and 20 percent in Moravia passed the general exam.