(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish community in Prussia is the only group in the general population whose number of children of school age has suffered the least decrease, according to the official figures published by the Government.
The figures show a general decrease in the number of pupils attending Prussian schools. Since 1927 this number has decreased from 5,451,594 to 4,136,665. or about 24 per cent This decrease, it is stated. is duo mainly to the decrease in the birth sate during the war. Among the Catholic population the decrease amounts to 24 per cent, Procestant 25 per cent, and Jews only 6 per cent.
The figures also show that the number of pupils belonging to no religious community (confesionslose) has increased to 23 per cent. The number of such children, which prior to 1921 was 41,732 is now 80.889. At the same time the figures show that the number of Jewish schools has decreased from 155 which existed prior to the war, to 93. The number of Protestant schools has decreased from 23.159 to 23.854. The number of Catholic schools has increased from 8.638 to 8,721.
The Jewish group leads in the decrease in the number of teachers. The number of Jewish teachers was decreased by 29 per cent. Protestant 7 per cent, and Catholic 5 per cent. The number of teachers without religion of those belonging to free reifigious groups has increased from 153 to 338.
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