Education In Cambodia Case Study

The major issues I see in the educational system in Cambodia Town is insufficient resources; personnel, financial, academic, and extra-curricular. It is quite obvious that they are a minority group, which explains the neglect and unequal attention they are getting from the government.
It seemed like they lacked the needed teachers (quantity and quality wise), who not only have the expertise, but the passion, patience, and understanding to teach and mentor the kids. For every country on Earth, you could draw little circles to say these are places where good teachers won 't go and to add to that, those are the places where trouble comes from. So, the problem is good teachers don 't want to go to places where they are needed the most. In the video, …show more content…
Most of the kids were either born in the United States or emigrated at a very tender age and so only heard of the terrors and trauma their parents and grandparents experienced. They did not really understand or connect with their parents both, emotionally, psychologically, and even in communication, as the kids spoke and understood English, while some of the older folks did not; as in the case of Maria and her mom. One way this gap could be bridged would be with the inclusion of some cultural/heritage-oriented program in their curriculum to also give them a sense of identity, else they would keep joining gangs just to have a sense of …show more content…
This is quite unfortunate because a good education is a major key to success, but there exists some inequality in attaining this supposed ‘great equalizer.’ Schools in low-income or poor districts where racial and ethnic minorities reside lack the proper and adequate funding, qualified teachers, and government support and attention. Just as I pointed earlier from the video; the school lacked the personnel, adequate programs/activities, support to ensure the kids stayed in school and excelled. Most of the support the kids got was from within. This poor quality of school results in unequal learning opportunities. Disparities in education follow a pattern in which African American, American Indian, Latinos, and Southeast Asian groups underperform academically, relative to Whites and other Asian Americans. These educational disparities reflect ethnic and racial disparities in socioeconomic status and they are reflected in test scores assessing academic achievement, drop-out and graduation rates, enrollment in higher education, as well as in behavioral markers of adjustment, including rates of being disciplined, suspended, and expelled from schools. This would account for the drop-out rates, gang-related violence, and other deviant behaviors as seen in Cambodia