Japanese Residents' Corporation Would Have Each Nation Educate Its Own Here The Shanghai Municipal Council last Wednesday consierea tne minutes of @ meeting of the Education Board fat Which were discussed proposals by the Japanese itesicents' "Corporation for changing the Council s edueationat system, hose proposals were embodied in a memorandum prepared by. a Commitiee of the Japanese Kesidents' Corporation charged with the study of the Councu's Administration Affairs The proposals, if adopted, would involve a reversion 10 tne Councl's early policy as summarized by tne Genera Education Committee of 39M, which, in reporting on the education of foreign children Shanghai, expressed the view that the duly' of providing education lay primarily with the parents, and, in their default, with the state to which they belong.
"At the conclusion of the Japanese Residents! memorandum it was sug> gested: (1) that the Councit abandon present, system of controlling and managing Municipal schools; (2) that the Council distribute subsidies to local schools which are being con trolled and managed by various foreign communities; (3) that the fund to be annually appropriated hereafter to such subsidies be fixed at the sum as budgetted for the fiscal year 1934, including the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, as its standard; and (4) that the ratio of appropriations to each individual foreign school be based on the number of school children accommodated therein or on the number of rate~ payers to the Shanghat Municipal ions of the Corporation's proposals for submission to the Council and request instruction regarding further consideration of them.
Another member observed that the memorandum from the Corporation omitted reference to the education of [Chinese children. The Council's existing policy provided that jereased expenditure on educational facilities should be for the benefit of the Chinese community, but it would not appear to be the intention lof the memorandum that funds should granted by the Council towards the assistance of Chinese schools.
'A third member pointed out that adoption of the proposals advanced by the Corporation would not only entail the abandonment of alt muni-Jeipal schools, but aisv would break down its entire educational system and involve the establishment of Jseparate educational administrations Jamongst the various national groups. [The consequences of tne proposals were s0 far-reaching that ne doubted Whettier detailed consideration of them would be profitable until it was knowe wether the Counci. was prepared to consider a complete reversal of its existing policy.
'A member stated that he presumed the Corporation's proposals were actuated by the fact that they not only contributed to the Council's Jeducational expenditure by means of taxation but also by their voluntary taxation towards the cost of their national schools. Other national Jgroups in the Settlement were not well organized nor did they con~ tribute direct to the same extent to
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