Monday, February 6, 2012

Reality Check

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of what it takes to attend school in Lang Son

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Schooling in Vietnam: a stark contrast (photos included)

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Updated : Tue, January 3, 2012,5:29 PM (GMT+0700)

This photo shows a mother carrying her children to a preschool in the northern province of Lang Son.

Photo: Vietnamnet

Some children are born rich and some are born poor. This is an undeniable fact of life in countries across the world, and there is little humans can do to alter it.

However, this inequality in social status should never be allowed to morph into an ugly inequality of educational opportunities, since education is, by far, the most effective way to help a poor person escape the poverty imposed on him by the circumstances of his birth.

In a remote area of the nothern province of Lang Son, two students are crossing a river unaided to get to their school, Tinh Bac Elementary School located in Loc Binh District. Hundreds of others like them have to cross the river, be it low or high tide, to go to school every day.

This little first-grader, like many others in the northern province of Quang Ninh, rows her boat to school daily.

In the northern province of Lang Son, a group of students paddle a half-floating, half-sinking bamboo raft to school. No accompanying adult and, even worse, no lifebuoy!

These elementary students have to walk through the forests and climb the mountains for 2 hours each day to go to Lung Ca Elementary School in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.