Things that wouldn't happen at a school in the States

-Announcement to all students: You must bring your big knives to school tomorrow. If you forget, you will be punished.
-Instead of having normal classes, all students grades 1-8 will be required to spend 2 hours collecting stones and coral in bags bigger than their bodies and carrying them up the massive hill to the school in order to “beautify” the school. … And the next week, “why are all our students sick?” Maybe because school has turned into a labor camp. The funny thing is the students prefer the hard labor to actual classes.
-What do we do with all these old books that we no longer need? Put them in the toilets for toilet paper.
-Some students don’t have desks or chairs and sit on the floor or on cement blocks. however when it’s time to fundraise, the main priority for the school is a sound system.
-Students in the 10th grade have never seen a dictionary and don’t even know what it’s for. (Now our school just got a supply so they’re learning).
-A prayer group comes to the school to run out the devils that are haunting the school and causing the students to get sick.
-When it rains, some classes go home because the classrooms leak, and others shut all the windows and light candles to continue with their work.
-A teacher doesn’t come to school for a whole week, but their students still sit in their classroom without any supervision.
-The “school aid room” which is a cabinet in the office consists of cotton balls and medicine for Big Leg which is most likely expired.
-Students are suspended from school for helping their friends meet up with a girlfriend or boyfriend.
-Students spend the afternoon weeding the flower beds or cutting the grass with a machete.
-2nd graders take final exams even though they can’t read.