If a sufficient number of Coptic pupils are found in a village or a group of villages to make this education feasible, a Coptic school will be established to teach them the principles of the Christian religion. The Copts request permission to enter the kuttabs and teach their Christian pupils the principles of their religion wherever Muslims learn the Quran. As far as I know, the councils have not found any way to agree to this request, except for one, which the Copts are asking for in the government writer. In my opinion, the time has not yet come in the Egyptian province, although I do not say it is impossible – for everyone, Sheikh and Priest, and the preacher to give lessons in two religions, one of which corresponds to the other. Lower class children together in one kuttab, which may sometimes have only one or two rooms in a house, and the consequences of this gathering are to be feared. If the number of Coptic pupils is not sufficient, it is permissible to establish a special kuttab for them, so they have no choice but to be content for now with learning the principles of their religion during the day.

The Copts are a small minority in the governorates of the Egyptian province, and their numerical proportion increases only in Assiut, Girga, and Minya. In Assiut, they constitute one-fifth of the population and have a representative in the Provincial Council. One of them was recently elected, while the other was a member of the council in 1910 and fully agreed with the educational statement approved by the decision, as I was informed. In this statement, they dared to challenge the established system in the limited period, as the three primary schools accept boys of all denominations without distinction. The council manages 79 kuttabs, 9 of which are exclusively for Copts, and the rest are open to them. An amount of 2,000 Egyptian pounds has been allocated in the budget to support religious schools, and the Copts have received their share of this amount, which has not yet been distributed. The council is currently considering two requests for aid for a Coptic school in Assiut and an Orthodox Evangelical school in Al-Nakhila. The number of Copts in Girga is about one-fifth of the population, but they only manage to elect one member to the council. However, the council ensures representation on the Education Committee, which includes 75% of them. The number of Copts is small, and there is a girls' school in Sohag with 56 Muslim and 14 Coptic students. Donors have contributed buildings for schools to the council, and the kuttabs that accept Coptic pupils are valued at 20,070 Egyptian pounds, and none of the Copts have received anything from this. The principle that the council has followed and adhered to is that the decision in the council stipulated the teaching of the principles of the Christian religion in every kuttab with 35 Coptic pupils. However, given the Copts' proportion of the total population, this insistence would be more theoretical than practical.