School sucks
October 31, 2007
As the new school year gets underway, VOA checks in to see how the kids are doing.
With primary and secondary schools opening their doors for another season, poor students find themselves in an annual bind. Without money to proffer their underpaid teachers, they fear they will be flunked, or beaten.
Students at public schools unofficially subsidize their teachers’s salaries according to the educational levels. In primary school, the students pay between 500 to 1,000 riel.
“When I have no money, I don’t dare go to school,” second-grader Poch Srey told VOA Khmer Monday. “I am afraid the teacher will hit me.”
Lovely.
