SCHOOLS FOR GERMAN GIRLS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2676, 28 July 1913, Page 7

SCHOOLS FOR GERMAN GIRLS.

In connection with the obligatory cont’’rnation school attendance scheme which flm city of Berlin has formulated for the benefit of girls, it is estimated that about 30.000 will come under the new measure. Also every half-year 1250 girls will be turned out fully trained in trade subjects, 1350 in commercial subjects, while 1000 unskilled workers will be prepared for accepting better employment. In order to ensure the smooth working of the scheme, Berlin is to be divided into ten districts, so arranged that unskilled working girls will he sent to the school nearest their dwellings and skilled working girls to the school nearest their workshops. For shop girls there will he one school as near to the centre of the city as possible. Much discussion has been carried on with regard to the subjects to be taught in these schools, and the advocates of a purely commercial or trade training and those who favour domestic training are pretty royally divided. A compromise, however, has been effected which will combine both and spread the domestic teaching, which is to he of a very thorough kind, over (he whole period of education.