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RUSSIAN SCHOOLS REMARK AB LE RECOV ER Y LONDON, Dec. 22. Ninety-four per cent of the 35,000 schools in Russia where study was interrupted by enemy action are now functioning again. Announcing this, the Soviet Education Secretariat said that 4,000,000 children in liberated Russian territory are at school, excluding thousands in school for apprentices. About one-thircl of all Hhc schools in Russia were damaged by the enemy to a greater or lesser extent. Eighty thousand teachers have now returned to liberated Russia.
The most serious problem is the shortage of building material, especially metal and glass. Many parents sent their children to school with glass from the family portraits and ikons, while many teachers have liecome carpenters in their spare time. Lack of text books is another problem. In some schools there are only three or four for classes of 40 to 50 children.
Despite these handicaps, the Russian authorities have reduced the schobl entrance age from eight to seven years, and arc gradually introducing a seven-year schooling period in all areas, in accordance with plans made before the war, but postponed in 1941.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21601, 2 January 1945, Page 6
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