Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN PHILIPPINES i I Are Arc Teachers But Few Suitable Buildings v GIRLS GIRL TO E EDUCATED t ENGLISH WILL BB BR LANG USED IN ALL INSTITUTIONS IONS NS p Washington Aug AUS 25 The division on of ot insular affairs war deportment department has baa received a copy of the annual report of Professor Fred W V Atkinson the gen general general eral era superintendent of Instruction Instruction tion then for the Philippines which covers the time from the enactment of ot the Philippine school law Jaw to the close e of ot the thelast last hist fiscal cal year June M II S 1 The Th school law mentioned authorized the appointment from the United States tates S of school teachers tea cher of whom Professor Atkinson says m had bad been appointed There wag was no scarcity of material from which to make the se so selection selection lection more than BNO personal writ written written ten applications having been Deen filed Speaking peaking of the general conditions Professor Atkinson said Jd The great present need weed is i that of adequate equate and suitable school l buildings Present Pre ent school buildings consist gen generally orally of one or 01 twp two large rooms with several everal teachers carrying on work in room roDIn These rooms are every were overcrowded ana antI many nave have no windows or floors Sometimes one teacher has baR to 00 pupils The education of girls has bas not been thought as 88 important as that of boys but wherever a school chool for boys is es established eS eStablished established it will be the policy to es et establish establish one for tor girls Evening schools have hav been established where practice practicable ble bl arousing great interest upon the th part of the people One high school at atthe atthe atthe the capital of each province will be es established established hed in 1902 Dr Barrows city superintendent of schools s of Manila Mantia reports of ot the first six months of his work ork Chang of Language The most J significant change is to that which has takes taken place in the attitude of the Filipino teachers t In December the plan was wa adopted of having the teach teachers ers of English devote at least the last half balf hour of at the forenoon to the in instruction instruction of the Filipino teachers and at the same time the announcement was made mazie that very ve ver shortly Spanish as u a medium of instruction would be abandoned With a very few exceptions the teachers accepted accept the proposed prop ed change of ot language and their attitude has now become one of real eagerness for the adoption of English They have also so far progressed in their knowledge pf Qt r English that it would be possible with the opening of school m tn June 1101 to use u only English Almost with without out ut exception our teachers are becom becoming tog ing appreciably more loyal to their and more conscientious in its It die dis discharge charge The question of religious instruction instruction tion in the schools has also been set settled tIed and without friction or any ny loss loas lossin lossin I in the attendance of pupil pupils Upon re receipt rei I of an official copy of or act No 74 4 of the Philippine commission C l which forbids any religious reli tous instruction by the I teachers teach erg a comprehensive order was issued forbidding the practice of re religious religious devotion de or 01 their employment i as means ef the discontinuance I of or all alt leaching of the catechism m or religions doctrine d ansi and an the removal from the school I of all alt hooks books kB containing g I emblems placards etc These orders were In every case complied with There was no protest plO t from frem either parents or teachers and as above stated no diminution oC ol o the at attendance the school year clotting closing clo with the largest t attendance in the history of these the e public schools To many of the teachers the change was apparent apparently ly It y welcome |