Instead of beginning school on October 1, students in Cambodia will begin a month later on November 1. The delay did not come from rain like years past, but rather came from the Prime Minister himself. After 75 percent of students failed the grade 12 examination, Hun Sen said students could re-take the examination at the end of October. To help those students prepare, the Ministry of Education has turned to tutoring. Many teachers are being paid to tutor grade 12 students in preparation for the re-examination. The 11 students who received A grades on the examination have also been recruited to tutor. This comes from the Christian Science Monitor:

Because of the reforms, those who flunked will get another shot at passing in a retest in October. The government is enlisting A students like Vibolroth in the fight.

She’s being paid $5 an hour to tutor students five times a week, two hours a day. One thing her new job has given her is perspective. She knows how hard it is to be a teacher. In her classes, the students are “very worried.” What they may not know is that the feeling is mutual.

Speaking in her new role as teacher, she says that, “I worry that I didn’t cover all the lessons and the exam [covers] that part I didn’t talk about.