The Cambodia Rural School Project
In the Memory of Ryan F. Waldron
School
Puth Som Ol is the 58-year-old school director. He is married and has eight children; four of them study at the new school. His family lives in the school village and has four hectares of paddy fields, which yield enough rice for his whole family to eat the year round.
“I graduated from the teachers’ school in the provincial town of Pursat in January 1982. After graduating, I was assigned to work at this present school until now. In 1991, I was promoted to be the director of this school, replacing of Mr. Leang Kimsy who was promoted to be the cluster school director in this area.”
“Since I am a teacher, I has experience teaching children from the first grade to third grade. Of those classes I prefer to teach the first grade more than the others. I think that the first grade is very important in teaching students to be obedient children. I must focus on teaching Khmer morality, how to obey, to pay respect to old people, or the people in the high positions, and to be a flexible and polite student.”
