Not sure if the article is a mistranslation, but it's a bit cheeky to say "Our income has dropped so please drop your fees". A more realistic approach, as mentioned by others, would be to say that online teaching isn't the same as face-to-face education and as such, you want a discount because your child isn't getting the full experience (nor does he/she have access to facilities and so on). That's totally understandable. If I were paying 5k+ (or even less) and suddenly my kid had to study online, I would also want a discount. That being said, the school also has obligation (staff salaries, rent, mortgage and/or bank loans, electricity and other overhead). It's tricky for everyone involved and yet another reason why they should reopen businesses sooner rather than later. When losing one's house and business is the silver lining to not getting infected with with a virus that has a >1% mortality rate for those under 50, you can bet people won't be too happy.

I wonder if the grouse shooting season in Scotland will still go ahead?

a counter could be, well the parents are saving on transport and canteen fees butt still getting lessons

lets not forget the small issue of their childrens safety home is safer

nice social distancing at the protest, ja?

hardly saving money as surely they have to pay to eat at home as well.

fazur wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:34 pm a counter could be, well the parents are saving on transport and canteen fees butt still getting lessons

lets not forget the small issue of their childrens safety home is safer

nice social distancing at the protest, ja?

Risk to children in that age range is negligible. The reason to stay home is to protect the teachers, as it is in any country. The difference is in Western countries, teachers are paid salaries regardless. In Cambodia, without government support, that is unrealistic, as parents pay teachers more directly. At some point it will be a straight choice between getting paid and self-isolating. Then we will see just how bothered the majority of staff are.

Any Cambodia who sends his kids to a school called CIA needs to have the quality of his intelligence read.

The resulting embarrassment produced more than loss of face. National Security Adviser Henry
Kissinger told President Nixon that this "failure of the intelligence community" resulted from
"deficiencies in both intelligence collection and analysis." Kissinger went on to specify CIA's prime
responsibility, noting that he was working with DCI Richard Helms on "appropriate personnel
changes in the Agency." Nixon penned an arty note: Jve me a report on these changes-I want
a real shakeup in CIA, not just symbolism,"

(Excerpt from the highest level CIA review of the CIA failure in Cambodia -
"Good Questions - Wrong Answers". Thomas L Ahern)

Cambo Dear wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:16 amRisk to children in that age range is negligible. The reason to stay home is to protect the teachers, as it is in any country.

hmmm interesting opinion, any cedible studies or source?

Cambo Dear wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:13 pmI am sure that they are continuing to pay their teaching and non-teaching staff in order to retain them for when the lockdown ends. However, the only real saving the school will be making is electricity, but that's probably tempered by loss of revenue from the dining hall/cafe.

Doubtful. I don't know of a single school still running full staff, or at normal wages. I think most schools have at least reduced, if not cut almost all western staff, many have reduced Khmer staff, and are paying reduced wages to those who remain. Pair that with the issue of online learning not being comparable to in person learning, and I personally think it's 100% reasonable to ask for a hefty discount compared to classroom learning. Though I think that the answer is simply to find somewhere else with lower rates, not protest in front of the school and demand lower rates. It's up to the company to charge what they want, and go out of business if people won't pay it. They can do what they want with their business.

I paid for one term [ 3 months ] for 3 kids Khmer school just before they closed and for two kids , one term [ 3 months ] English also. So what is that money being spent on while my kids are now at home .

Duncan wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:18 pm I paid for one term [ 3 months ] for 3 kids Khmer school just before they closed and for two kids , one term [ 3 months ] English also. So what is that money being spent on while my kids are now at home .

Similarly to you, I paid a term each for two kids and one third into it they closed and sent out some facile "home schooling pack".

I'm not charitably disposed toward that establishment right now.