> Yours, Rakesh
In the case of Cambodia most of primary schools work in two 'sessions' a day because there are not enough classes for all the kids. Morning kids go work in the afternoon, afternoon kids work in the morning. I don't have the figures at hand but if I remember well, only 5 kids per thousand make it straight to high school and graduate. More than half quit after 2 years (out of 6) of primary school. Until recently it was only required to graduate from junior high to be primary school teacher. The teachers I met there last month were not 20. It has changed and now HS graduates only can apply. There are only 5000 university students in the country.
In Siam Riep (where Angkor Vat and the other ruins are located) kids are everywhere trying to sell you stuff. I mean _everywhere_, some do not go to school anymore because they make more money and because their parents force them to do so. It is not factory labor because Siam Riep got very rich with the tourist industry (the international airport is bigger than Phnom Penh airport...)
In other provinces, kids are abondonned or sold by their families. You know the story I guess. I visited an orphanage there with kids from 2 to 15. Most of them had been through prostitution. The orphanage does not get enough fund from the gvt and has to get international help from unesco or similar groups. Generaly speaking, the gvt does not invest on primary schools especially in the remote provinces (not remote because far, remote because the roads are so bad it takes half a day to make 150 km) and leaves it to ngos. Teachers are paid by the community and the community needs to find the funds to fix/build the schools.
JC Helary