ABSTRACT
Botum Chenda was born when Cambodia was supported by Vietnam and the Soviet Union. She was educated during the period of liberal democracy and now teaches science in the Preah Go lower secondary school. Since her government salary does not provide enough money to survive, she also teaches private tutoring to her own students, charging them a fee to attend. Chenda's life story shows the emergence of educational privatization in the 1990s and the resultant social relations experienced by students and teachers. History dictates her choices to some extent, but her awareness of social injustice makes her behave in ways that cannot be considered corrupt.
