Dear Fr. Ruffino
Greetings to you and members of West Nile Community
Thank you father for the initiative you took to find out what could be the
likely causes of poor education performance in our region. I do appreciate your
efforts also do concur with you.
Hence I propose that in order to improve education performance in our schools,
we need a multi-prong approach. Therefore I suggest the following:-
1) We need to randomly carry out simple cross-sectional survey in our region
e.g 100 surveys in Towns of West Nile, 50 surveys in each Say Sub-counties.
This can be done while we wait for a big research in future.
The findings of the survey could be discussed during an open debate which you
are planning to organise.
2) In the debate, there should be a key note address by an educationalist where
results of the survey and the previous results of the performance are
discussed. (Take note of subjects e.g. Sciences Vs Arts)
3) The following should be invited to attend the debate in person:-
i) Chairperson LCV and the LCV councillors since they do discuss the
districts budget and planning.
ii) Head teachers of the schools.
iii) MPs from West Nile (Take note: No campaigns and politicking only issues
pertaining to Education)
iv) DEOs and the CAO.
v) PTA Chairmen and Chairmen Board of governors for the schools.
vi) Bank managers to discuss how the banks can help schools acquire soft
loans in order to build some training facilities e.g. Laboratories and also lab
equipments.
vii) Religious Leaders.
viii) NGOs
ix) Some of our development partners.
4) After the debate, members should be organised in different groups to
discuss the factors affecting performance of our schools and make resolutions
of how to solve the problems.
5) Finally a Policy should be made by our Leaders i.e. CAO, DEO and LCV
councillors following the resolutions made by the people. What is agreed upon
should be operationalized and monitored hence evaluation mechanism must be
taken note of.
I would also propose that in addition to the discussants, the following should
be allocated some time e.g. 10 minutes to present a paper on the way forward:-
i) CAO
ii) DEO
iii) Church Leaders e.g. Bishops and District Khadi
iv) A representative of a Bank
v) A representative of NGO
vi) Chairman West Nile Parliamentarians.
Vii) Chairman West Nile Teachers Association.
Finally “When hen or cock feeds, it scratches towards itself” it doesn’t
scratch in opposite direction. So it’s upon us from west Nile to solve our own
problems of poor performance.
“Life is best understood backwards but we live it forwards” So having
understood our setbacks, we should take note of how to improve and protect the
education performance in our schools.
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