To the Editor of the "Noare-Cama Dany News" given 1 pupil of the Boy's Public eng Road; he is ten years old; he has never done a long-division sum yet, he is not even able to use pen and ink and still cannot write a decent longhand, but does some infantile sort of printing. Two years-ago on home leave I put him in one of the Council schools for the duration of gay marily backward that hi made a special appointment with me to talk about him. When I returned I mentioned this fact to the Héad-master here who told me soothingly that (he boy was not backward but "just average!" If he is a dull child. and he does seem to be. I of course do not blame the school for that. but why in Heaven's name say that he is not backward when he positively and decidedly is, If you do not think this letter should be printed I am agreeable; I am writing it mainly to let you know that complaints regarding the quality of the education here are not entirely unfounded. as you seem to suggest in your leader.
WonarED, Shanghai. Sept. 3.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.