In 1995, I was a teacher at Bumayong High School in Lae, Papua New Guinea. I was given grade 7 classes to teach Social Science.
There was one class of students that did not contribute to lessons. They just sat like logs and copied the black board summary into their work books.
But one female student sitting at the front was full of enthusiasm. She would contribute to the lesson by answering questions, the only student to do so. Her name was Geua.
Her enthusiasm lasted about a month and then she went silent and sat like a log with the rest of the class. But her work book was immaculate.
After that year, I did not see her again on leaving the school. Then one day years later, I met her in a street in Port Moresby. I asked what she was doing.
She was in her final year of a Bachelor of Science at the University of Papua New Guinea. I could have guessed it would be something like that.
She did not let the feral students in her class push her down. There is a difference between struggling students and feral students.
The feral students actively push the school down by bullying and threatening brighter students.
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