| The examination of 2 subjects in a day at southern Mon State' town |
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| Written by Kaowao | |
| Friday, 14 March 2008 00:00 | |
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Ninth grade Basic Education High School students in Southern Mon State have been forced by the regime to take their exams under especially difficult circumstances. Citing security concerns, officials in Khaw Zar sub-township instructed students to take two exams per day, doubling the usual one-exam-per-day schedule. The increased work load makes passing the exams difficult, according to parents of Khaw Zar students. "They (authorities of town) announced the examination started on the 27th (of February) and must be finished in three days. All the students got tired so they couldn't pass it well. How could they? Their teachers are angry and dissatisfied with the attitude the authorities have towards their students," said one mother of a student in Khaw Zar. The examinations were scheduled to cover Burmese and Chemistry, English and Physics and Mathematics and Biology in three days. According to a source close to the Education Department of Ye township, the shortened exam scheduled was blamed on ongoing conflict between Mon rebels and the Burmese army. Attacks in the area occur almost daily. After Khaw Zar village was promoted to the rank of town standard by the SPDC, the Mon High School of the NMSP' Education Department was dispossessed by the regime to reform the Basic Education High School. But the Education Department of the NMSP had inaugurated another Mon Middle School (8th grade) at town again. |
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