Educational Support in Mozambique

When I was in the Peace Corps, I served as a secondary school biology teacher in rural Mozambique. There, I encountered a whole lotta kids and a whole nottalotta teachers, crammed into school buildings with few supplies. In some cases roofs were even threatening to fall down on students' heads; they had never been replaced after being bombed out by RENAMO during the civil war, the contractor having absconded with the donated repair funds. The kids were like kids everywhere, sometimes curious, sometimes bored, sometimes awesome, sometimes little shits. There were a number of generally undereducated yet dedicated teachers, working from 7am with the beginning of 1st period of the first school shift, until past 10pm when the sixth period of the 3rd shift ended, five days a week, three trimesters a year. And then there were a whole bunch of corrupt jerks who were only still there because there was such a desperate teacher shortage. I read now about how the Mozambican government is putting in place a new program to support and supervise teachers and schools. I hope it stops those corrupt jerks I knew from deliberately lowering students' grades after barely teaching at all for a whole trimester in order to extort money and sex from them to pass. I can't wait to see the day when Mozambique has enough trained teachers to kick the predators and the thieves out of their school system.