It is not uncommon for students to hit a teacher, threaten a teacher with a knife, or throw rocks at the teacher s house, in the case of failure in exams. There is no neutrality, nor any guaranteed correlation between hard work and good marks. The students resent this arbitrariness, and assume their failure is because of teacher unprofessionalism, and mark-rigging. In general there is a high level of ill discipline in government schools. Baucau is a case in point.
Teachers teach for exams annual, semester and internal exams.
So they have to ensure that the students get the right answer. There is much rote learning. This ensures the students develop skills in memorisation and exam-performance, but rarely develop an interest in learning. Teachers teach through chalk and talk. Teachers do not read stories to young children.