“Her English is very good. She must be the number one student in her class,” I said about one particularly, bright, lively and talented young girl.“No!” was the response. “That is impossible.”
“Impossible? Why?” I responded, puzzled.
You see, the gifted girl’s teacher holds ‘special’ after-school classes; classes that students must pay to attend. And to those paying students goes the highest grades; whether they are the most deserving or not.
Our smart eleven-year-old student cannot afford these classes. She will never top her class.
Oooo this is so sad! What can be done to break the cycle though??
ReplyDeleteHi Jill,
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult to break the cycle, as the rich are content with corruption because they benefit from it.
However, the poor don't benefit.
Because English is the Language of the World, we believe teaching English to those poor students that show an aptitude for this skill, means they can speak out in what has become known as the Language of Protest.
In this small way perhaps the cycle can begin to be broken.
Ann