Because in the Samoan culture the students most of their time they are exposed to a
lot of culture-based faalavelaves [family obligation] and other things happening at
home. So they will be, they have an exam or something that, the first priority goes to
doing things with their family so then they might not get time to, time to study, and
also if they, if they come and write the exam after for example a funeral of some
relative or close family member. I don’t think they’ll be in a good mental state to, to
take up the assessment. … So many times I tell my students ‘you study in the
classroom’, if they can make that time for their study that’s always better, so they are
more productive in the classroom, and there’s no homework they need to do at home.