Inequality
City/ village
International and national estimations show that the achievements of
the students from the villages in maths and science aren’t as good as
the students’ from the city.
– For example, 55% of pupils fail in maths in the city, while this index is 71 % in regions.
Circumstances haven’t changed for years.
Main reasons that cause this situation are:
•Not qualified teachers
•Rural style of living
•Calendar and plan of the year
•Not enough or not accessible recourses and bad facilities
Teacher is one of the main figures in the school life who must provide high quality
education for children. Despite of the city, finding a teacher in the village is hard,
especially if you are searching for the teacher of foreign languages and science. They
aren’t qualified enough, some of them don’t even have degree in the subject they
teach.
Rural life is quite different from the urban one. Children start to help their parents
in the farm from the 7th grade. That’s why they miss classes and school books can’t
provide them with the opportunity to learn lesson they haven’t attended at home.
Different lifestyle of the region and the capital leads us to another problem. School year plan
and schedule is mostly suitable for the citizens. This is a result of the fact that government
doesn’t give as much independence to the schools as they need. They are all managed same and
the main differences aren’t considered. For example, there is “rtveli” in Kakheti in the autumn
and neither children nor teachers have the holidays to help their family.
• Rtveli
– Mostly there is no resources at home for the child to get any kind of education,
so the only hope is the school, but sometimes there is the lack of resources in
the schools too. For example, there is no lab or good library and enough
computers. 186 students study at one of the schools in Zugdidi region and there
are only 5 computers. The facilities are way too old. Some schools need
repairing, because the condition of the buildings are really bad. For example,
there isn’t the hygienic toilets and even clean water.
To sum up we can say that children in regions don’t have as much opportunities as in the city.
Mostly both parents and children think that they are getting good education, because they have
nothing to compare with around them and they find out the truth only after national exams.
So what is the solution?
So what is the solution?
•Provide more lessons for the children who need more help to study
•More graduated volunteers that can share their experiences with the students
•Qualifying teachers
•More independence to the schools and good administration
•More projects in the regions and access to the information about them
– We can take an example of the U.S.A in order to rise the number of attendance
of the students at school. As we already said a lot of children are helping
parents to provide money for the family. If Government pays them the money
they need, the child won’t have to work and the parents will make sure that
he/she won’t miss the lesson.
Every single school is different. Administration must be good and must be sure what school needs. They
must be able to make changes, but this doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be controlled.
Teachers should study as well as the children, they must develop modern views of life and learn new skills.
The school life must be more active. It is better if there is more connection between the
city and the village. Students should be able to attend or make more projects.
Village student’s life shouldn’t be as different as it is from the city ones. Government
must make sure that every single child gets the equal opportunities.
Researches show that students who wright exams in Azerbaijan
language get low marks than the children who wright in
Geaorgian. (even if it’s maths)
The main problems that we’ve already mentioned occurs in this area too, but the
situation is worse because of the language barrier. Students are taught Georgian
and they are provided with the special school books, but there aren’t effective.
The solution is to qualify the teachers and to provide better books that will help
students to learn Georgian and also their native language really well in order to
study other subjects and have more opportunities.
– Is spite of all these, as my teacher would like to say “if child wants to study,
he/she can study anywhere”. For example children from Senaki won the first
place in NASA project. They created armour that can protect from really high or
low temperature. And also the teacher from lanchkhuti is one of the 10 best
teachers of the world.
