Do Cambodian students learn multiplication tables and other stuff?

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Re: Do Cambodian students learn multiplication tables and other stuff?

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Ravensnest wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:03 am
newkidontheblock wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:53 am But what I don’t get is the half day classes in the public schools. Students either have morning classes or afternoon classes. Meanwhile in western schools, class is from morning until afternoon or evening. How can the same amount of material be taught in half the time?
Those are part time students. Some families cannot afford to send their kids to school full time or they need them to come home to work part of the day. Just like college for westerners, it will take them longer to graduate.
In private schools here, the kids take all the regular history, science, English, Khmer and math classes But they take English versions of those subjects AND also the Khmer versions. So they have 2 math classes, 2 History classes, etc.. Most go to school full time which includes a half day on Saturday. Their homework is through the roof and they work very very hard. They have far more than what is put on a western student in the US.
I know of a girl that is in a 6th grade class in private school full time and is homeschooled for the 7th and 8th grade at night.
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Re: Do Cambodian students learn multiplication tables and other stuff?

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Ravensnest wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:09 am
newkidontheblock wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:53 am But what I don’t get is the half day classes in the public schools. Students either have morning classes or afternoon classes. Meanwhile in western schools, class is from morning until afternoon or evening. How can the same amount of material be taught in half the time?
Those are part time students. Some families cannot afford to send their kids to school full time or they need them to come home to work part of the day. Just like college for westerners, it will take them longer to graduate.
Most schools and universities in Cambodia are half day. It does not take longer to graduate.
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explorer wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:54 am
Ravensnest wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:09 am
newkidontheblock wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:53 am But what I don’t get is the half day classes in the public schools. Students either have morning classes or afternoon classes. Meanwhile in western schools, class is from morning until afternoon or evening. How can the same amount of material be taught in half the time?
Those are part time students. Some families cannot afford to send their kids to school full time or they need them to come home to work part of the day. Just like college for westerners, it will take them longer to graduate.
Most schools and universities in Cambodia are half day. It does not take longer to graduate.
I am only familiar with private primary schools here. They can go "part time", that's their term for it, but most go full time.
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