"None are servants here... We are the children of the earth. The fortunate children of the earth."
And that’s from children singing in a village school. At one level, the irony is palpable. Rural schools are almost never given a fraction of the facilities, funding and opportunities that urban schools receive. Schools that appoint ad hoc teachers at appallingly low salaries. Schools where the instructors are completely unqualified – some states have exempted candidates from the Teachers’ Eligibility Test so they can bring in completely unqualified, underpaid people. Schools that sometimes go without any teachers at all for ages.
