Only one-third of the students in Vietnam would pass the school-leaving examinations.
This was largely because of a deliberate policy of failing students, particularly in the final year, so that they could not qualify for the better- paid jobs. Usually, as many as two-third of the students failed. In 1925, only 400 students out of a total population of 17 million were passed school leaving examinations.
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Huynh Phu So.
The government made the Saigon Native Girls School take back the students it had expelled.
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What was meant by the ‘civilising mission’ of the colonisers?
The French began building canals and draining lands in the Mekong delta.
