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372 Education.

The progress of education during the year has been

satisfactory and no disturbances like those which took
place in the past have ocurred.
There are now five boys schools and two girls’

schools and the total average attendance is 644 boys
and girls although 828 are enrolled, Out of the 27

teachers 15 are local and 12 are foreign, the foreign
ones being mostly Syrians, There is undoubtedly some
feeling among the people against the foreign school

teachers but the standard of education is still so low
that it is impossible to obtain satisfactory local

teachers for the higher posts in the schools and it is
impossible to obtain any local women who are capable of
teaching and managing the girls schools.
Amali~biiitation of Shi a ana Suimi schuois. ^arly

in the year, at the beginning of the present school year,
the Government carried out its intention of amalgamating

the two boys schools in Hanamah.
The Menanah girls’ school was previously housed in
a building which v/as rented by the Government, the girls’

school was moved into what used to be the Sunni boys
school. It is a large airy house and suitable for a
school, it was purchased as a school by the Government

about ten years ago. Screens were put up in front of
the windows in order to ensure privacy.
The Sunni boys school moved into the big Shia school

on the south of the town which v/as built by the government
about three years ago. The school is a very fine build-

ing and can hold about 300 boys but at the end of the
previous year only about 40 boys were attending and of
these quite a number were Sunni. The action of the

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