The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Trapeang Kdar School
Mr. Sao Sarun, School Director at the Trapeang Kdar School
Education history: I have taught since the year 1979 and after that I was promoted to deputy school director in 1982. I trained at Kompong Chhnang’ school of pedagogy for one month in the year 1993. Then I became deputy director of this school in 2005.
Family status: “I have two sons and two daughters in my family. One daughter is already married and another son is studying in Phnom Penh at the Norton University. He is a third year student. My wife makes a living by farming .The distance is about 1 kilometer from my house to the school. Everyday I come to teach by bicycle.
“I am very happy with this new school and the villagers who has been living around this area like to send their children to study in the new building because during the old school. We difficulty-teaching students when it rained because the kids could not learn in the old school which was made from wooden and easy for rain to pour into the classes”.
About teaching: “Most of the kids like to study only two subjects among four subjects.
They learn literature and mathematic because they easy to learn and they will know how to write letters and calculate when they do business. They find it difficult to understand the social science”.
