, 1912-10-05

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ly SUI ported by the Colonial Treasury, Eng
fish Is the language of tuition while Danish
is the most important of the other subjects.
The second question was by ordinance 10
make such rules and regulations for our
High Schools, that they could give the schol-
as the information wanted here and at the
same time make it easy for a scholar to 90
over to a Danish School with the higher
standard.
But the rules for the Danish High School
might not quite unchanged be used here, as
there English and French are the foreign
languages taught, while here Danish must
have a special place in the School and French
is more useful than German. Also in other
respects changes had to be made.
A proPo7ai concerning tho wh0lo orropSo
ment was therefore drawn up by me and has
afterwards been discussed, not alone by let
ters, but also orally when 1 some years ago
was in Denmark and used the occasion 10
talk the matter over f. inst. with the Inspec-
tor of the Middle Schools.
The result is now seen in the Draft laid
before the hon. Council, to which Draft nei-
ther the School Board moi the principal OF
st. Croix High School have any remarks to
make, and which | therefore on behalf IF the
School Board beg to recommend for aiop-
ton.
But now it may be asked what will be the
consequence thereof? And the answer Will be
that, every High School in the Danish West
Indies may petition to hold the examination
and get the right to do so as long as it has
sufficient teachers, scholars and material, and
the scholars are advanced enough to pass the
examination. The right to hold the exami-
nation may be given for one or for 3 years,
and then the Schools, if they want it, senG
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School can get this rght, but every school
provided it meet the II quirements.
Some might still think ( it bet or to arrange
the Schools without GLOWING the Danish
Schools.I think this wrong, as the instruction
given IN Higher Schools IN Denmark now is
very practical. Whatever Is learnt is of use
regardless OF the after employment OF the
scholars and therefore it will be well for us
to follow the snme rules as they do in the
Mother Country.
But besides that, Parents who want to
give their chill lren a Danish education will
then be able to keep their children here till
they have reache the ages of Is or Is years
and then send them home, and it is not as
expensive to keep them here during those
years as it is to keep them IN Denmark.
Furtherm re it is II bad thing for children to
leave Their home at an early age, and it must
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them far away and thus give up their infu-
ence on them. | hope more and more chill
dreu from here Will be able to go home, be
trained there and then return to fill posi-
tons not now open to them.
1t is also difficult here to find teachers for
the Public Schools, but in this respect High
er Schools arranged IN the way proposed
may be Il h Up to Us, if we get the High
Schools which we need and want, what to a
certain degree depends upon the Ordinance,
though also upon the High School and the
population.
Let us therefore as far as possible follow
the same rules here us in Denmark, thereby
becoming conversant with Danish History.
Literature and Language and to our own
benefit ''building a new bridge" between the
Mother Country and our small Islands.
Sd Member for Christinnsted's Country
District (Leery). 1t is not quite clear to
me if an examination in the Schools here
holds good tor the same classes ia Denmark
wi hout passing another examination there.
Experience has taught us that an exami-
nation may be good in one case and not
in the other. The Ordinance claims that