The Archive · 1925

The Socially Parasitic

(9) The root of the educational Gificulty here is embodied in the following paragraphs from the recomplaint that there are too} "any youths now being given a wholly academic education with no "al training comes from every, ied, from teachers, from school administrators, from public officials, from business and industrial leaders, and from pub-more than a score of academically trained youths, Yet hundreds are graduating each year from thei neademie high schools. If these graduates leave the province, they are lost to it. If they remain without congenial employment, they to swell the rapidly growing class! of the socially parasitic and the! discontented, "The Province of! Occidental Negroes, wi tunities "for hundred youths. in. responsible po sugar centrals, on plantations and transportation, is a good example. 1 Ju the past this' province hag. sue cessful agricultural, trade,' and normal schools." But these' have Jong since been closed. At the same time there has existed in Bacolod such community disorder and-even! criminality: among the youths: who are or have been school pupfis that

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