Cambodian Classroom Conversations: Men Take Less

Aged between eleven and fifteen this class is a bright bunch. Most of them are attending state secondary schools.

I asked them if they had mostly men or women teachers.

"50/50," they said.

"And who are the better teachers, men or women," I asked.

"Men," they cried in unison.

"Why?"

"Because the women take more money from us.* They take a lot, teacher. The men not so much."

* It's common although an illegal practice for students to have to pay cash to their teachers just to get the daily lesson paper.

See http://cambodianbeginnings.blogspot.com/2012/11/and-then-there-were-5-cambodian-lessons.html