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Laos: the School

We are excited about our move to Laos as we visited a lot of schools over there, it's been a long time since we had no not been as well received and that our project was not as good n works: very pleasant !
So we could harvest lots of pictures and information about the school in Laos.
To start down that there are no public schools (except at the university level or there are private institutions) and the school is free. By cons it is not mandatory, at least not yet, the government sought to extend the access to better education al and quality of education (building schools everywhere, teacher training in a normal school in 3 years with emphasis on pedagogy, awareness campaigns ...). At present, 60 percent of children attend school al. Laos is indeed a very developed country and therefore very little urbanized, paved roads are still too recent and limited. Many children living in remote villages and mountain thus found themselves too isolated to be able to go to school al. Among those who have the chance to go al school, many people who have to stay in boarding school al the week, the school is too far to make the round trip every day, many others travel for miles (up to about 10 km !) daily walk or bike to school al. No
We have not seen children working in sense to have a gainful occupation by cons most of them spend their weekends to help their parents: they work in the fields, carry heavy things, doing the housework, keep their little brothers and sisters (they are dining, feed them, etc..), help their parents in the shops.
Both children and adults rise up here as almost everywhere in Asia will rise with the sun around 6 am, the school only starts at 8:30, those who are fortunate enough to live near the school so their parents also help morning and evening to do a lot of housework. Children will

al school Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 11:30 and from 14h to 16h30. They have a recreation of 20 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes after the noon. At lunchtime they can either go home or eat on site, by search did not cons canteen, children bring their lunch or buy so merchants streets near the school and eat in the classroom. Children have approximately three months of vacation per year, about 2 ½ months during the summer monsoon, one week in April for the Lao New Year public holidays and some here and there.

They are about 30 to 40 students per class and n are in primary school that one teacher per class that teaches them all the materials as in France. Classes are mixed but in most schools girls and boys are separated, girls s sitting on one side and the other boys. No they have no job fixed time, c s is the teacher organize as they wish while maintaining the number of hours allocated to each instruction.
The subjects taught in primary school are al Lao, mathematics, visual arts, history, sports, it's also a practical course in which they learn to cook, sew, crafts, gardening etc.. Materials such as the sciences, English or geography are taught that from a college. The school is secular in Laos, the religion is not mentioned.

children all wear uniforms, stockings black, beige or blue (or capri pants for boys, skirts for girls) and white shirt. There are three prefects per class, they are designated by their teachers based on their results and their behavior. their mission is to help the teacher materially (clear the table, distribute copies ...) but should also help maintain order, they must denounce those who speak or do anything other than listen to the teacher by some exemple.Dans schools, teachers give children that they deem wise and good students a red scarf that they must hang around the neck as a distinctive sign. The

School in Laos is managed by the central government and not the provinces, the program, holidays etc. are the same for all schools in the country. Children have ratings every month and two weeks of big exam twice a year on throughout the program. There are n or repetition, or tutoring, children with poor results are first summoned to the office of professor one or more nights during which the teacher gives advice to improve s (thus bearing on the methods and organization ) and then, if s results do not improve until then punished for improvement.
The school organization is the same as ours, kindergarten, elementary, colleges and universities with the same age distribution.

The schools generally have very little material in the best case they have new tables, chalk, some educational books, a few balloons and paper, pencils and paint for the visual arts.

is a picture of a bilingual class manual in a school in Luang Prabang. As you can see these Children learn the french, even better during their teacher are in french as in Lao so that these children become bilingual. There are few such classes in Laos, 5 total, all located in cities that have retained a strong French influence has continued colonization: Champasak, Pakse, Savannakhet, Vientiane and Luang Prabang. These classes are classes prestigious requiring a good level to enter school, children are selected by competition and record (places are few school principals s want to ensure that the child will go after his schooling before assigning a place). Bilingual classes are the only to have two professors, one that speaks to them only in french and another in Lao. French teachers are unfortunately sometimes even big mistakes (we have heard such a saying "you sat everyone and take your book" or writing "opens" to the table) but in all the children are doing quite well and have a good accent.

That has what looks like basically what possesses each pupil as school material, some pens, a ruler, a pencil, some notebooks, a textbook or two, or sometimes white eraser. Most No time children have no kit or briefcase they carry it in a plastic bag.

school.

A staff room on the left with a few educational books and has provided background on the table notes the number every day.

Classroom. You can watch some children with red scarves.

Another class in another school earlier, giving a class on the outside then.

Another class.

On most fronts of the schools the names of schools is written in french even when there is no bilingual class L interior, yet the legacy of colonization, c is also the case with all other buildings administration, we can read in town "mail," "police", "hospital" ...