1911-1912 SCHOOL REPORT: TARNOW TRADE SCHOOL

The purpose of a trade or mercantile school (a two-class business school) was to provide those embarking on professional sales or other related professions, with educational training in commercial courses, both specific and general. Instruction was in Polish.

For acceptance, students had to submit their birth or baptismal certificates, prior school records, and written parental  (or their representative’s) permission.

Upon graduation the students received certification regarding their behavior and grades while attending school. Those students who left during the school year (prior to graduation) received a certificate indicating only that they attended school but did not graduate.

There weren’t any certification of completion exams prior to graduation. The school’s director and teaching staff decided if the pupils had achieved their educational goals.

Overall Learning Plan:

Required Courses—

Religion, Polish language, merchant accounts, geometry, learning a trade and promissory notes, correspondence, bookkeeping, office practicum, geography, natural history, physics, commodities, learning about the state system, stenography, calligraphy

Additional Mandatory Courses—

Russian language (in Eastern Galicia), German language

Optional Courses—

Russian language (in Western Galicia), typing, gymnastics, singing

A One-year Course For Girls At National Trade Schools

Overall Learning Plan:

Required Courses—

Wholesale billing, mercantile bookkeeping, correspondence and work exchange, trade and science of promissory notes, commercial geography, stenography, calligraphy, typing

Optional Courses—

German language and correspondence

French language and correspondence

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STUDENT LIST:TWO-CLASS TRADE SCHOOL

Underlined last names below appear on the JRI Poland Tarnow schools surnames list :  http://jri-poland.org/psa/TarnowSchools_surn.htm

Preparatory Class--

Birn Samuel, Buchholz Szya

Feuer Ozyasz, Fisch Juda

Gallas Zygmunt, Grobtuch Jakob, Grunhut Samuel

Hauser Salomon

Kapelner Mojzesz  (may be mine), Klein Jozef

Mann Markus

Schachter Izrael

Wachsmann Markus, Weit Ruben

Complementary (?) Trade School—

Burstin Wiktor

Chaim Salomon

Feig Izak

Kotlonski Adolf

Polek Jozef

Witek Eugeniusz