(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Seventy-five percent of the Jewish pupils in Roumanian high schools failed in this year’s high school examinations, despatches received here from Bucharest state.
According to the reports the same fate befell the pupils belonging to other national minorities in Roumania. The feeling prevails among the Jewish population in Roumania, which is partly given expression in the press, that the flunking of Jewish pupils in the high school examinations is a deliberate move on the part of the Roumanian officials to put into effect a numerus clausus practice by making it impossible for Jewish high school pupils to claim the right to enter college. It is reported that members of the examining commissions asked the Jewish pupils for a statement concerning their racial origin.
Grave fear is expressed concerning the effect of the mass failure among the Jewish high school students.
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