A Vietnamese teacher in a well-equipped classroom next to the factory floor taught the
12 children. There was formal tuition in the morning. The children were expected to return to
the classroom in the afternoon for private study. This expectation did not become practice
and the children disappeared after lunch. The factory had decided to teach the children in the
factory because it was feared that, if they were sent to normal school, they would truant and
find employment in another factory. The children believed they were in ‘paradise’. The
notion of being paid to be educated was almost impossible to believe. What the other workers
thought was not recorded.