The crux of the problem is that with an ever-increasing population there

will be school crises every year, unless we can provide adequate school
funds. The school crises are generally met by appropriating emergency
funds or by adopting measures which undermine educational standards.

Whenever the people demand school facilities our school authorities- the
Secretary of Education, the Director of Public Schools, and the
Superintendents. They are asked to adopt ways and means by which
children could be accommodated, without increasing school appropriations.

We have adopted a double-session program to “educate” twice the number

of children on the same amount of money. Teacher have been overburden
by being assigned to teach one class in the morning and another class in the
afternoon.

Class have been enlarged which has made the educative process hardly
effective. Classes have also been authorized to open without adequate
provision for textbook, for getting that children cannot learn to read without
material for reading, any more than they can learn to swim without water to
practice in.

To help insure and maintain at least minimum standards of education in the

elementary, and secondary schools, it is desirable and urgent to define them
by legislative action.

The proposed law should define class size in the primary, in the intermediate
and in the high school. Likewise, the law should provide that classroom
instruction in the primary shall not be less than five hours a day; in the
intermediate at least six hours; and in the high school, not less than 8 periods
a day.

In the intermediate grades, there should be three teachers for every two
classes and in the high school the teachers should teach their major subjects
only. No classes will be organized unless the requisites number of textbooks
and supplementary materials is available in the classroom, based upon a
ratio between the number of textbooks and the group of children. There are
other features of school standards which should be embodied in a law as
conditions pre-requisite to the opening of a school

Let the law define plant and equipment, class size, minimum number of
textbooks, of teachers for each class, of hours of classroom instruction, are
the problems of education in our country.