SOCIOLOGICAL - EDUCATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED Bucharest
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PUBLISHED 5 - 14 Sep 1952
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TeachersI Conferences
Between 1.0 and 1.2 September 1952, teachers' conferences were held through-
out lumania. Reports were given on teaching achievements of the 1951 1952
school year and on activities of the UTtd (Uniunea Tineretului Muncitoresc, Union
of Wor in, Youths) groups.(!)
All intIrmediate and secondary schools are scheduled to open on 15 Septem-
ber 1952. The number of schools is constantly increasing.(2) During 1951 -
1952 alone, over 2,500 elementary schools were established in Rumania. There
were over 191,912 students enrolled in over 700 intermediate schools. Whereas
in 1935 - 1939, there wetre only 21 institutions of hither learning, in, the 1951 -
1952 school year there were 1,953. Minority groups also receive ample teaching.
Over 2,00,'2 elementary schools, 164 intermediate schools, and 17 university
faculties ot'fe_r courses in foreil;n lan;ua,7es.(3)
The Ministr of Public Education announced that construction was started
on 40 now schools, with a total of 137 classrooms. About 99 classroom; were
started in 11951 and completed during 1952; also, 386 schools with a total of
(;;69 classrooms were almost completed and ready for classes. All these schools
were built by the Ministry of Public Education.(2)
in addition to the schools built by the Ministry of Public Education, ap-
proximately 135 schools with a total of 1+35 classrooms were built by the peasants
therselves, throu;Rh self-taxation. Pitesti Regiune had the highest number of
:schools ')uilt through self-taxation. Approxi::ately 76 such school buildings
ur expected to be ready for school in this regiune alone. Other regi.unes
which built schools through self-taxation were Ploesti, Hunedoara, and:Timi-
soara.(2)
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Preparations on the Raion and Regiune Levels
The teaching section of the Timisoara Raion People's Council paid particu-
lar attention to preparations for the 1952 - 1953 scholastic year. In May
1952, this raion formed a committee to prepare schools for the succeeding year.
Care and maintenance of the schools was planned months ahead of time.
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During the first days of September, the Barlad Regiune Party Committee held
its first meeting of the new school year. Eugen Radescu, chief of the public
education division of the Barlad Regiune People's Council, presented the main
report. According to the report, over 90 percent of the schools in the regiune
were ready for classes. All schools had been repaired and many remodeled. Ample
numbers of books and other school supplies were brought to the raion library
centers, and the school buildings were supplied with necessary amounts of fuel.
A second report was presented by Nistor Botezatu, who discussed several
shortcomings in classroom furnishings and equipment, as well as the absence of
sound parent-teacher unity. Plans were made for decreasing the illiteracy
rate of the regiune by increasing attendance in courses.(5)
Individual Schools
Several Bucharest schools have achieved particular distinction by using
Soviet methods. These schools were: Boys' Lyceum No 2, Girls' Elementary School
No 22, Elementary School No 67, Girls' Elementary School No 14 , and Boys' Lyceum
No 8.(i)
A new school building was constructed in Cristesti, Iasi Regiune, through
self-taxation, as had been decided at a meeting of the people's council. in spring
1952. The peasants were directed by Gheorghe Olaru, president of the people's
council, in the work at the school site. By using local resources, the people's
councils saved over 30,000 lei in the cost of the building.(6)
Registration at Mixed Lyceum No 11, in the Militari district of Bucharest,
began during the first days of September. A speech given recently by assistant
director Popescu (fnu) praised the new party-built school as superior to the old
two-room building. Parent-teacher groups met at Girls' Lyceum No 3 and Boys'
Lyceum No 10 several evenings early in September to discuss ways of improving
the schoois.(6)
Over 1,000 children from the "Aparatorii Patriei" district will attend a
brand-new school building at the beginning of the 1952 - 1953 school year. The
building, constructed with the party aid, has 14 classrooms, a large 2-hectare
garden, and a yard over 800 square meters. Many of the preparations for the
start of the new school year were made by parents living in the district, who
donated many hours of free labor to repair the fence, clean the halls, level the
yard, etc.(7)
The Presidium of the Grand National Assembly has decreed a change in the
name of the Intermediate Center of Technology and Electrical Energy, located at
Strada Gh. Sincai No 8-10. The new name is the "Iosif Rang,het Intermediate
Center of Technology and Electrical Energy." Another decree changed the name
of Boys' Intermediate School No 2, at Strada Bolyai No 3, Targul Mures, to
"Iosif Ranghet Boys' Intermediate School No 2."(8)
All schoold in Bucharest will be ready to open their doors to students on
15 September 1952. Schools of the Andronache district were painted and cleaned
much ahead of schedule. The duputies fo-f party organizations] and pioneers of
the district donated 3411 hours of voluntary labor in order to complete the 1,000-
meter water duct to the school building. The children's parents performed an
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additional 288 hours of voluntary labor to construct a 120-meter-long school
fence. In the I. Creanga district, a new four-room school building was completed
almost entirely through the voluntary labor of the parents and deputies of the
district.(9)
A large trade school for boys was recently completed on Soseaua Mihai Bravu,
in the Bariera Vergului district. The school grounds cover 40,000 square meters
and the buildings occupy an area of 10,000 square meters. In addition to the
main school buildings, there are four two-story sleeping quarters for the stu-
dents, several workshops, one laboratory, one library, one lecture hall, and
one dispensary with 40 beds.
The dining room is located on the first floor of the main building, adja-
cent to a modern kitchen. The first and second stories are taken up by the
16 lecture rooms, one practice shop, and several professors' rooms. The sleep-
ing quarters are modern and comfortable. Additional sleeping quarters are
planned for the 1953 year, together with a gym and a recreation room. At the
present, the school can handle 1,300 students, but at the end of the 1952 -
1953 school year it will accommodate approximately 2,500.(l0)
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1. Scanteia, 14 Sep 52
2. Romania Libera, 12 Sep 52
3. Viata Sindicala, 14 Sep 52
4. Viata Capitalei, 12 Sep 52
5. Scanteia, 6 Sep 52
6. Ro)minia Libera, 6 Sep 52
7. Vista Capitalei, 5 Sep 52
8. Romania Libera, 5 Sep 52
9. Vista Capitalei, 10 Sep 52
10. Ibid., 9 Sep 52
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