Vietnamese Children Cross River in Plastic Bags to reach School

Vietnam's bridges are so bad, kids have to float in plastic bags to get to school. In a mountainous area in the north of Vietnam, plastic bags have become the means of transport. This video, filmed by a primary school teacher, shows school children and teachers squeezing themselves into plastic bags so that they can be carried across a river to get to school.

 

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'Prime Minister' & his 'Cabinet' look after this School

As per a report:

Koraput (Odisha):As you enter Sevashram, a residential school for SC and ST students at Sipaiput in Odisha’s Koraput district, you are welcomed by the “prime minister” of the school. While the prime minister, Binod Hontal of Class VII, is in overall charge, other ‘ministers’ look after sanitation, cleanliness, hygiene and other matters in a novel experiment in school running. 

Thus, Manjula Mudagadia, a 13-year-old student, sees to it that toilets remain clean in her capacity as the “health and sanitation minister”. “Food minister” Budu Pangi ensures that the kitchen is kept hygienic and the students are served food properly. The ministers are part of a five-member school ‘cabinet’ which was formed in July, 2013. They were elected by students for a period of two years. The idea to involve students in the upkeep of the school did not come randomly. 

It was mooted by Odisha government and one teacher from each school underwent a four-day training schedule as a first step towards implementing it. “Children are instruments of change. With the concept of making a student the prime minister, assisted by a cabinet, a daily routine is ensured of checking whether their schoolmates have bathed, combed and washed,” says S Nageswar Rao, the headmaster. Rao feels that the idea would also help develop leadership qualities and social responsibility among the students. 

He claimed that after the introduction of the concept, attendance rate at the school has increased appreciably. “A meeting of the cabinet is held every Saturday, where we discuss the problems of the school. The health minister has been trained to give medicine to students suffering from diarrhoea and fever,” he said. Apart from the food and health ministers, the school cabinet has ministers for sports, environment and cultural activities.

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Village School teacher remains absent, hires boy for teaching

Now what would you say to this Village school teacher who always remains absent from the school but hires a boy for teaching in his place. As per one report:

A teacher of a government school at a village in Gadchiroli, in which three police jawans were killed during a landmine blast triggered by Naxals last week, has allegedly hired a 10th standard pass boy for teaching even as the former remains absent from his duty. 

The matter came to light on Thursday during a visit to the Motha Zalia village under Korchi taluka of the district when the villagers alleged that a 10th class pass boy had been hired by a regular school teacher to teach the 18 odd students studying in the zila parishad primary school. Sources said the teacher appointed at the school rarely turned up, except for signing the attendance record while he had hired a village boy to render services. 

To add to the woes of the students, no classes were being held since the blast on October 16 damaged the school premises and no alternative arrangements have been made so far, village's ex-sarpanch Tanu Hurra said.

Now what you have to say on it....pl. comment.

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A School in a Women's Toilet Complex

Manasa, Madhya Pradesh: In a town in Madhya Pradesh, 90 children in uniform go every day to a women's toilet complex that they call school. Classes are interrupted whenever women need to use the bathrooms.

The children are made to turn the other way and wait till the women are finished. "It is very dirty and smelly, but no one cares that we are forced to study in a bathroom," said Tina, a Class 5 student of the government-run primary school in Manasa town. Read more.........In Madhya Pradesh, a primary school in a toilet complex

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