At the beginning of new academic year 2007-08 started on October 2007 with an opening ceremony as planned. Parents have been required to register their children at public school at age 6, while they reach the age of schooling. Even though, all of them have an equal chance to attend school, the children is living in poor family, in rural and remote areas have less opportunity than the children in rich and well-off family.

When we talk about quality of education, we talk about quality of life as a result of education in school.

Prime minister said that “these problems include the fact that many children and young people, the majority of them female, poor, and living in remote areas, cannot attend school, because of a lack of school buildings and a lack of teachers.

As we knew, all parents often need their children to attend school like other children but poverty is the main obstacle to sending children to school. Poor parents always need their children to help generate income. By the way, those children often drop out or repeat class because they are busy to help their family make a living.

While it was raining heavily, I was sheltering at gas station, seeing a few hopeless children who were begging for money from people standing there. I asked them “where is your parent?” they said that they were sitting nearby. And they told me that they do not attend school yet. Some of them reach the age of schooling like others, but they have no chance to attend school it is because of poor family. Their parents are also beggars.

To these points, the poor children are losing education opportunity. Does the government have strategy to help them? According to new draft law on education, parents are forced to send their children to school. If they are poor, they are impossible to support their children to attend school, despite free enrollment, how do they send their children to school?

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