Education
The government is responsible for the building of schools in the area. There is one school run by the government, but both elementary school and junior high school are run by the Catholic Church. Every school has to follow a national timetable and curriculum, including mathematics, English and Indonesian. Most people in the village complete junior high school. We were told that there are no big differences between the public and the private schools.
A major problem in the schools is that the teachers don’t have much education; many of the English teachers don’t speak English very well. Also most of the parents don’t have education and therefore don’t understand the matter of necessity of education for their kids. They rather prefer their children to help the family in the household or work in the fields instead of going to school.
Almost 75% of the children in the village complete primary school. The Catholic primary school has three teachers, all with different levels of income. They teach their students in nine subjects, religion included. How much money you make, depend on how many years you have been working and level of education. One of the teachers has been working for 23 years and makes 1.5 mill Rupiah per month. The school has 30 children divided in three classrooms. The students spend one hour per week to practise religion.
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