Our school is a typical provincial subdistrict school with 22 teachers and 360 children. Children come to school from different remote places. Some stay in dormitory, others come to school on horseback. All subjects in our school are taught in the Kazakh language. Despite the isolation and remoteness from the provincial centre, teachers are very committed to their work at the school.
Teaching is a job respected by others.
I teach in the fourth grade. I am proud to have many students. There is one common concern and challenge in educating Kazakh children. That is that the education curricula and textbooks are not of the same standard as Mongolian-language national editions. Kazakh children are falling behind in academic achievement and have difficulty passing University and college entrance exams.