Dec 8, 2009
DPA
Phnom Penh - Four primary school teachers have been reinstated after they were accused of taking too much money in 'informal fees' from pupils, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
The director of Bak Touk primary school in Phnom Penh said the school had given its teachers permission to charge each pupil 500 riel (12 cents) per day, but claimed the suspended teachers regularly charged twice that amount.
'I repeatedly warned them about taking (too much) money from students, but they didn't listen,' school director Yim Sokheng told the Cambodia Daily newspaper.
Under Cambodian law, primary and secondary education is free, but low civil service wages mean teachers either take other jobs to make ends meet or extort money from students.
Yim Sokheng told the newspaper that the school's 166 teachers are paid cash every day by students. The 500-riel daily limit was imposed following a directive from the Education Ministry.
The director of Bak Touk primary school in Phnom Penh said the school had given its teachers permission to charge each pupil 500 riel (12 cents) per day, but claimed the suspended teachers regularly charged twice that amount.
'I repeatedly warned them about taking (too much) money from students, but they didn't listen,' school director Yim Sokheng told the Cambodia Daily newspaper.
Under Cambodian law, primary and secondary education is free, but low civil service wages mean teachers either take other jobs to make ends meet or extort money from students.
Yim Sokheng told the newspaper that the school's 166 teachers are paid cash every day by students. The 500-riel daily limit was imposed following a directive from the Education Ministry.
5 comments:
I know these teachers need to pay for a living wages but to allow these teachers to charge their students is formally equivalent to allowing corruption in the institution that supposed to teach kids right from wrong.
Why unconscientiously blame the poorest teachers in Srok Khmer? Blame the CPP's folks!
some teacher, not only charge from pupils for living ,but also for buying new cars, i mean they over-charge pupils in many ways, selling lesson paper, selling test paper, punish who do not go to private class....lots
12 cents per day/student to buy car. Stop that stupidity. these teachers cant event buy enough food to feed their mouth and those of their family event they have to work like dogs. Many khmer ordinary have to do amouth of shit things event they dont want to do because they have to live then it becomes a mentality and a culture, culture of survive and misery.
That's cpp great development and yuon culture influence since polpot time
Who doesn't want to make a living? These students don't even have a job and how the hell are they going to pay the teacher?
Oh God! So it is all come down to $.12(500 riels)just to get an education? Tell me of the quality of this education given by this teacher?
These dirt poor Cambodian students can't focus on their study without thinking where the fucken money come from to give to this teacher! Oh.. their parent is also fucken dirt poor too! What now?
Tell me that only HUN SEN CPP clan can get good education!
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