To the Baitor of the "Nonri-Cunea Darcy News"
This 4s a suggestion to Shanghat parents to boycott schools for month (or longer if necessary), Just fo°show the powers-that-be that we are really thoroughly fed-up at last! This will entail some sacrifice—bat the time has come when the payer mist get together and flatly refuse squeezed any drier.
It parents will act together and keep children away en bloc as from Sep~ tember, we may get something ac~ which we pay through the nose is Furthe the education for Tar below the home free education standard, Jose Awornen Panty:
Shanghai, June 2
Need for Reconsideration To the Editor of the "NontiCuten Daty News"
Sint wonder If the Shanghai Municipal "Couneit fully. realize the hardship that is being placed upon International Settlement parents when they impose this new surcharge on the school fees, It is distressing for me to hear my children saying when. they return {vom school daily, that ""So-and-S in their form will not be returning next term as they cannot afford the School fees. Education is not for such as can afford, but something that should be within the reach all children. "From what T have been able to gather a large percentage of the fathers of children' who attend Municipal Schools are men who as they are now, my. knowledge, are exusing'adme Ccaraisment' tu" te "budget banya howe, The new fees simply mean that a large: number of bays ele ave going 12be turned out to'wark before. they are ripe to do fo. "There ie the. oilier steraative thay they. will go. short of food. in thet homes n-order to complete, the ductiond peogramine wich they fave plenncafor thee ehitdan, Might suggest that the" Council Inge Teter his mater, and' it a tay te necessary, ts is good Tot i cers have to be pale and, the school institattons havea be kept torts ly the "recognized respons sibility of the governments In all countries claiming a measure of civilization. That we also claim here, and we should substantiate our claim by seeing that education Is "provided within the financial possibilities of parents, Shanghai, June 3,
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