No Teachers? Well, very few
This has been a trying week for me. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I serve in a boarding school where prospective primary and secondary teachers are being trained. There are over 400 kids (Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3) at the school, and I live in the apartment that is adjacent to the girls' dorm. There are three terms during the school year and we are coming to the end of the first in a couple of weeks. I have yet to meet the Year 3 students as they have been doing their practicum at schools throughout Rwanda. This past week all of the teachers were assigned a number of Year 3 students to observe. This meant that none of them were in school. There are still about five student teachers on campus, but for the most part, other than a class here and there, they just sit in the staff room streaming music and talking loudly in Kinyarwanda. Hence no substitutes and kids left alone in classes. Interestingly, some of the teachers left assignments and the