GEIC'S "forgotten"
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schools
Outer island schools were “forgotten” by education people on Tarawa, the GEIC’s admin istrative capital, Miss Kaennang Kirab u k e , 23, teacher at Nonouti’s Island Council school, said in December.
She said that not enough books and magazines were sent to her primary school pupils, and that the colony’s news letter, Colony Information Notes, arrived weeks, and sometimes months, late.
“Here on Nonouti the children need something more to read than just text books,” she said.
“One of our main objects is to teach them English. The brighter boys and girls learn fast but they have nothing to read other than text books to keep them active.
“It’s a shame Tarawa doesn’t send us more ClN’s. The three teachers at the school get two between them, that’s all. No ClN’s come for the children.
“Our lack of reading material is just one of many things here that make us feel that no one outside Nonouti cares whether the atoll’s many children are educated or not.”