Poor Students Truant as Classes Begin in Cambodia
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- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:57:21 -0700
Poor Students Truant as Classes Begin
Seng Ratana, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
29 October 2007
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."
Cambodian Independent Teachers Association President Rong Chhun said
teachers had no choice but to take money from students, given their
low salaries, which do not always come on time.
"The stomach situation forces them," he said. "Even when the
government increases [the salary] 20 percent in 2008, it will not be
able to sustain life."
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