Failing Grades
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Many secondary schools labeled institutions of international standard fail to deliver. Parents complain of their children being shortchanged.
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SEVEN and a half million rupiah is a lot of money for Trisno, a low-paid government employee, to pay for his child to enroll in a secondary school. With a monthly salary of not more than Rp1 million, the 44-year-old gave up registering his eldest child with Junior High School No. 2 which carried a label of Preparatory International Standard School (RSBI) at Depok, a small town just outside Jakarta. “I gave up, I don’t have that much money,”
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