Narinjara News
Kyauk Pru,
Villagers pay paddy to school teachers as salaries
insufficient
Parents from
If the parents do not pay any
extra money, the teachers do not come to schools in time to teach the children,
said a village chairman.
“We paid at least 200
baskets of paddy, worth about 100,000 kyat, per teacher last year but we do not
know how much we need to pay for this year,” he said.
As the government salary is insufficient for their families' basic survival,
the teachers are forced to take on other jobs.
“We are going to Kyauk Pru
tomorrow to look for our village teachers, where we have to negotiate with them
about how much paddy to pay for this year's teaching fees,” he said.
It was learnt that the schools in Burma are now opened on 1st June after a two
month long summer vacation, but some teachers are still absent to open their
schools.
The government salary is only 10,000 kyat (equivalent to $10) a month in
“We are happy to pay our paddy to support the teachers," the village
chairman said, adding that without any assistance from parents to the teachers,
they are unable to take care of their own families.
All parents from rural areas of Arakan agreed upon the
system of assistance to their village teachers for their children's education.
Now several villages from Kyauk Pru
Township including Lan Kyauk,
Chaung Gri Pya, Kyauk Gri
Pron, Maw pya, Pron Chay, Kaung
Bon, Tay Chung are collecting paddy and money from
villagers as extra income to support the teachers.#
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