INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500270008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 5, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INFORMA
COUNTRY Poland
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
Industrial Schools
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE 21EAHINO OF Tt'.E ESP:OlIA4E ACT BB,~00
U. S. C.. 31 AND 72. AS AMENDED. ITS TRARSTAIES10N OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN AIY YARNED TO AN UNAUTHORIZED FERSON IS PRO-
HIDITED DT LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED. NOW
EYED. IHFONGATIOB COHTAIOED IN BOOT OP THE FOHN NAY Si UTILIZED
AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE RECEIVING AGENCY.
1. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce m,
gard professional industrial training as vital in rresent-day conditions
in Poland. During the past three years the Ministry,' Industry and Trade
has set up more than 500 industrial schools which are claimed to be rya
product of a cultural revolution and a tyro best suited to the interests
of the corking class". These schools Includes
425 three-year schools and gymnasia
26 lyceums
50 industrial preparatory schools (SPP), exclusively for peasant
youth. (See next paragraph. )
4 technical schools
a. These schools, attached to some i-portent industrial centers in Cen-
tral Poland, were started in the spring of 1947. Their function is
to train some 25,000 pleasant boys and girls between the ages of 1%
and 19 for industrial work. The schools are exclusively for children
of smallholders, agricultural laborers, and the like, who would other-
wise have no chance for any professional training.
b. Currieultiam
28 hours per week of general education.
9 hours per week of theoretical instruction in industrial
professions.
16 hours per week practical training in workshops.
c. '14bile attending the S. P. E, pupils are given free board and lodging.
After a year the graduates will obtain the grade of semi-trained (przy
uczony' :r,rkers in various Industrial branches,
DATE DISTR. 5 May 10,48
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