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Learning on Empty: When School Means One Pencil Split Three Ways

The government counts our school as "equipped" because there's a blackboard. Never mind that we share one stub of chalk between four classes, and the "computer" is just a keyboard with missing keys that kids practice typing on.

Our Daily Inventory

Morning headcount:

The district supervisor calls this "minimal standard." We call it normal.

Teacher's secret: "I buy chalk from my salary because 'waiting for supplies' could mean no lessons for months."

Creative Survival Tactics

Our unofficial curriculum:

The ministry would fail us for not following the national syllabus. But hunger and distance don't care about syllabuses.

The Hierarchy of Need

Maslow never taught here:

  1. Get to school alive (snakes/rivers/roads)
  2. Find something to eat (school lunch or foraged berries)
  3. Stay awake (hard when you worked before dawn)
  4. Then maybe learn something

Yesterday's lesson was interrupted when three kids fainted from hunger. Today we're sharing my lunch.

Village math: "If 1 notebook costs 2 days' wages, and you have 3 school-going children, calculate how many meals your family will skip this month." - Real word problem

The Privilege of Basics

What "well-equipped" schools have that we dream about:

Our richest family donated a wall clock last year. It doesn't work, but we pretend it does for their dignity.

Why We Persist

Because:

Tomorrow we'll come again - the hungry, the shoeless, the hopeful. We'll copy lessons from the blackboard onto scraps, then erase to make room for the next class. Not because it's fair, but because it's all we've got.

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