FINA Af'idatussofa (14) is not an international school student and not the children of the rich man. She was born as the son of farmers in the village of Kalibening, three kilometers south of the city traveling to the Kedungombo Salatiga, Central Java. Because parents can not afford, she was forced to go to school in junior high school in her village tayyibah Qaryah Alternative. However, in terms of ability to be competed with students Fina expensive schools that are now mushrooming in Jakarta."If a singer, my job just to sing. In fact, many of my ideals. I want to be a presenter, I want to be a writer, song writer, scientist, and much more! I'd also like to travel around the world," said Fina.
SMP alternatives tayyibah Qaryah officially registered as a Junior Open, the school is often associated as a school to accommodate the poor in order to follow the nine-year compulsory education program. However, alternative junior high school students Qaryah tayyibah very loving and proud of their school.
06:00 new schools have started and ended at 13:30. However, at the school was very short for the students of the school so that after lunch they usually return to school. They learn while playing at school until the night, they often do not even stay in school.
Junior high school pupils are really enjoying Qaryah tayyibah school. School is something fun. Teachers in the classroom is not the authoritarian ruler, but a friend of learning. They are free to speak with her teacher in the Java language ngoko, language strata which are only fit to talk informally with a close friend.
In class they are also very free. They can be fun to do math problems in jest, there is work on the problems with hum, others play monopoly. Atmosphere to play it even in kindergarten are now increasingly rare because they were forced by his teacher to read and write.
SMP Qaryah tayyibah born of concern Bahruddin see education in the country are increasingly dilapidated and increasingly expensive. In the mid-2003 her first child, Hilmy, will enter junior high. Hilmy have earned a place in one junior high schools in Quezon City. However, Bahruddin disturbed by other children of farmers who can not afford to pay the money into a junior high school when it has reached Rp 750,000, the average fees of Rp 35,000 Every month, not to mention the uniform money and money on a book that amounted to hundreds of thousands of rupiah.
"I probably could, but what about the others?" he said. Bahruddin who became chairman of the pillars of the initiative to gather in the village and its people offer ideas, what if they create their own schools by establishing an alternative school. Than 30 neighbors gathered, 12 people dare put their children to school to try it. To demonstrate its seriousness, Bahruddin also incorporated into his school.
"I want to create schools that are cheap, but quality. I do not think I'd be able to bear children are formidable. The important thing is they can go," said Bahruddin.
Bahruddin adopt a regular junior high school curriculum. He said it was not able to develop their own curriculum. After all schools will be recognized as a quality school if you can get good grades and get a government-recognized diploma. That's why he chose the format Open Junior. However, he changed just as the Open Junior tendency to divide the institute diploma in management studies seriously.
The school occupies two rooms in the house Bahruddin, which was previously used for the Secretariat of the Organization of Peasant Qaryah tayyibah. Number of teachers who teach nine people, all graduates of state Islamic religious institute and most of them peasant activists.
Math teacher was a high school graduate who is now boarding at the school. 24-hour free internet access is obtained from an internet entrepreneur who is interested in the idea Salatiga Bahruddin. With a minimum investment runs the school.
Apparently in recognition of the existence of alternative Qaryah tayyibah SMP does not take long. The average value of a junior high student test Qaryah tayyibah much better than the average value of its parent school, especially for subjects Mathematics and English.
The school was also impressed, keep public schools in the quiz contest in Salatiga mastery of subject matter. The school was also represented in the race Salatiga motivation to learn independently at the provincial level, by representing Quezon City to attend the Convention Asia Pacific Youth Environment in Surabaya. In the test class increases, the average English student subjects Qaryah tayyibah reached 8.86.
SMP alternatives Qaryah tayyibah also advanced in the art.Under the guidance of music teacher, Soedjono, school children joined in a latitude band sound. The ability of the children in singing the school marching songs and hymns in English and Indonesia could be heard when opening the school site address www.pendidikansalatiga.net / qaryah. Children's musical group that has documented the small village of traditional kids songs on cassette, MP3, and video CD album Tempo Tembang Dolanan Doeloe produced at the same time for fundraising. All students can play the guitar, which became mandatory in the school skills.
It's hard to imagine a simple peasant children that each have a computer, guitar, a pair dictionary English-Indonesian and Indonesian-English, a package of BBC English lessons at his home. All is not free to use. The children have to manage it all together pocket money amounting to Rp 3,000 children receive from their parents every day. Money amounting to Rp 1,000 is used to repay the purchase of computers. For breakfast, drink milk, honey and snacks each day to Rp 1,000, Rp 1,000, while the other for savings in the school. Savings for the school's students returned in the form of a guitar, dictionaries, and others.
Not surprisingly, the children and their parents are proud of the school. Imagine, in schools close to home in a small village they get a lot of things that are not available in schools run by commercial logic.
Ismanto (43) tells his girl was down when registering junior in Quezon City two years ago. Influx of money Rp 200,000, not including books and uniforms. There was not a student to school on foot addition to his son, Emi Zubaiti (13). Emi is now becoming a smart kids in various subjects, singing smart, and confident. He never imagined could send Emi, son pair repairman sofa and carrying baskets of herbal medicine, have a good school.
Ismanto even come to enjoy a computer that is credited from his pocket money. Mentored his son, now Ismanto started learning computers. "I never thought I could buy a computer. Now I can actually come to enjoy," said Ismanto
Not that education must be expensive right? Can be cheap but quality. Low-quality education is not something utopian, but can be achieved with determination.
Who says schools have to be expensive?
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