§ Mr. WHITEHOUSEasked the President of the Board of Education what new scheme has been recently adopted in Berlin in connection with the continuation schools there?
Mr. PEASEIn November of last year, taking advantage of the recent modification of the Gewerbeordnung, the Municipal Executive (Magistrat) submitted to the Berlin Town Council a new by-law enforcing attendance on all girls employed in industrial or commercial undertakings in Berlin. The limits of attendance are the same as for boys, with this additional proviso, that any girl who at the end of the term in which she reaches her seventeenth birthday has not satisfactorily completed the course may be required to attend until she attains her eighteenth birthday. The amount of attendance demanded is not to exceed on the average six hours a week, nor is it to be less than four. The classes must be held between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., and the course of instruction must include domestic economy. This by-law was accepted by the town council on 28th November, 1912, and now awaits the formal sanction of the Oberprasident of the Province of Brandenburg. If sanctioned, the by-law would come into operation on 1st April, 1913. It is proposed to modify the boys' Statute1198W so as to make it harmonise with the new conditions proposed for girls.