White Trash

School is a strange place at the moment. We are in a state of limbo now. The past few months have been a frenzy of trying to join the two schools together that exist in one small community - the International School (parent base mostly xenophobic white trash with money working to better themselves by living in a foreign country and will return one day to where they came from and bore everyone shitless with how cosmopolitan they were and how "interesting" living in Indonesian was), and the National school (parent base mostly upwardly mobile middle class Indonesians, who want for their children what most Indonesian only dream about). Before the holiday the teaching staff were informed that the actions of one parent had put the whole process in jeopardy. At the beginning of the amalgamation, the community agreed to proceed with the process. One individual has halted the whole process. Everything is on hold until the community votes. The instigator has supporters - typified by a comment that I will never forget at a public meeting by one parent of questionable intelligence, when she stated in front of everyone, “What about my blue eyed, blonde hair child, who is alone in a class of Indonesian children?” Need I say more? As a teacher and rationally autonomous thinker, I see the joining of the two schools as ethically and morally the only thing that should happen. I have always thought this. From the moment I arrived to work for this company: I asked why are there two schools - one for Indonesians and one for the “expatriates?”