Cambodia: After School - a photo on Flickriver

Several people who saw my previous photo commented on the serious/depressed looks on the faces of the school children riding the bicycles. I don’t know the reason for that look. Today’s photo shows an entirely different mood. The children all seem to be rather happy. One thing I noticed while spending time in Cambodia is that the schools normally finish the school day somewhere around noon. I found out that the primary school day consists of five sessions of 40 minutes each, which means that the children are being “educated” less than four hours per day. Also, here is a bit of other information about the gloomy education situation in Cambodia that I found on the Internet.

** Many Cambodians cannot read. The adult literacy rate is around 65 percent. In the early 2000s, UNICEF estimated that 65 to 70 percent of all Cambodian children started school, but many repeated first grade two or three times or dropped out by the second grade. Most of the drop outs were girls. One UNICEF official told the New York Times, "...they can't build an economy on that. Not even agrarian. "

** In the 1960s, Cambodia had a relatively good education system and the literacy rate was high. But that system was essentially wiped out by the Khmer Rouge. After the Khmer Rouge years, schools had to be built up from scratch. The number of students attending formal classes rose dramatically in the early 1980s. Today only about half of school age children attend school, and even then schools are so crowded that often more than 80 kids are squeezed into a classroom the size of a living room. It is not unusual for schools to have a morning shift for one set of students and an afternoon shift for another group.

** Education is poorly funded. Most of the government budget goes to the military and security; little is left for education. For a while the amount of money spent on education was falling rather than rising.

If you would like to read more about it, here is a link to where I found the information.

factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Cambodia/sub5_2d/entry...

Thanks for following along with me on this journey.

Taken in: Cambodia / Siem Reap Province / Siem Reap (show map)

Taken on: January 27, 2017

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