Dear Fr. Rofino, Thank you very much for sharing with us your emperical discussion with the folks. In a way you were carrying out an ethnographic study on this important subject of the persistent decline of education in west Nile. It is one way of gaging peiople's perceptions on the problem. The approach you have adopted is very good to open people's. However, from a professional point of view i would like some one to really volunteer and help us in systematically documenting the performance in some selected number of both primary and secondary schools across WestNile for the last five or ten years to let people especially our leaders to realise the gravity of the problem of death of education in the region. Talking about the problem without basic facts and figure is making our people become complacent. Can you imagi i was told on phone from Arua this morning that in the whole of Arua district hardly 10 candidates passed in grade one in PLE in 2008. Surely what are the elite and leaders in westnile doing? What are we paying the people who sit in district education for? Why do we continue to pay the headmaster in these schools? What are the so called Board of Governors doing in these schools when the policy and law gives them a lot of powers? Surely, enough should be enough! Just as every liquid has its boiling point there must be a limit to our patience! I am sick and tired of our inaction! This is too much! Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
--- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.tualu.org _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
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