Ladies and Gents, As Jesca Bako Anguyo (Mrs) observed, there is need for short term efforts to try to correct the poor performance in the region, though some have been tried before without an apparent change. You see the attitudes of today's WN students are so negative to good performance to the extent that their notion is that it is the poor students to read hard. No one gives you a second look if you were addressed as the best student in the country. . You may say HURRAH Hon. Wadri has got one of the main problems, but come to think of it.Alaka Caleb, Ejiku Robert, Gilbert Adibo and the others from Mvara, Didn't we used to go and dance in White Rhino and our Biology teacher was at the gate selling tickets? How did we perform well? FOCUS. Many of us were literally out buying our own teachers with local booze. What happened the next day? You were more serious bse u spent the previous day carelessly. Didn't the Ombaci boys sell the school cat several times for local booze? Were the not matching up to town for a dance? Am sure Wadri did the same many things. Lets stop being hypothetical, far removed and too academic in trying to identify some of these problems. Take the type of parents we had (they now take their children to study in Kampala from PI!), they were so serious about their children's education. Now you want to discipline a child in Mvara, she rejects the punishment courtesy of the parent and the next day he is a student in Nile High. What do you do as an educationist? As opposed to other areas of the country, our private school are for the poor of the poor and there is no discipline to talk of. School managements are not being assisted so much by the other stake holders to deliver. Come down and find out how these primary teachers (both primary and secondary) are appointed, posted and transferred. You will be amazed. I am not condoning teacher and pupils drinking and dancing together, but the issue is indiscipline on the part of the all stake holders as Dr.Alicai mentioned. Let me also suggest that since we are receiving large volumes and volumes of correspondences on this network. it would be of benefit to us all that if you want to send a private mail to discuss private matters, isolate that address first before sending. Thanks Ayibo Benard 0777517745/0772515536
--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Titus Alicai <[email protected]> wrote: From: Titus Alicai <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] The people on the ground To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 8:20 PM #yiv173095971 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv173095971 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Unfortunately, this situation is apparently rampant in the region, but it amounts to unparelleled indiscipline by (1) the teachers, (2) students, (3) parents (who have either lost control - most kids just dont care to listen any more; or many current generation also equally irresponsible, dont be surprised if they are in those same 'joints' with their kids). As I understand it, the local councils (village, subcounty and district) have the powers to come up with legislation to regulate, limit or even ban these discos and video shows etc in order to restore some sanity. Take the Christmas day shooting at Alikua trading Center, Maracha, where a Senior 2 student was shot and killed at a disco by eithet the district police commander and his escort -- they are in court and behind bars over this -- it is sad ... Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:17:13 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [WestNileNet] The people on the ground Now this is not a laughing matter. Hon. Kassiano Wadri was invited to make a speech over the weekend. The good Hon. M.P for Terego had this to say in relation to our penchant theme of Education. Commenting on the performance of pupils who sat for their PLE last year, the M.P told us that only 3 pupils passed out of all the 57 primary schools in Terego County. Now wait for the shocker, the M.P stated that teachers in Terego sit with their pupils in "Kibanda's" (that is a colloquial term for "make shift" video halls) the whole night watching movies. That it is common seeing those teachers with their students dancing in those Godforsaken make shift discotheques while imbibing the bitter staff. That when it comes for time for lessons, its a common practice for the teacher to be sucking a packet of the staff while teaching.. By the way thses gins are cheaply packed with brand names like Kings Gin, Higbury, Old trafford et.c. I and Father Ruffino exchanged some rare glances since both of us where in the audience. Unfortunately the M.P did not give us a way forward. Ya the ball is in our Court. Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! Try it! -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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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