Caleb and all our good people out there, I need convincing on the rationale of a stakeholders meeting that will not be attended by those who could cause a change. So many meetings have been called in the past but they have all ended up in dismal shows. Eco-city is one of such meetings where I saw the same faces and most probably in this mailing list. The same faces I find at the burials, weddings, birthdays, Science Cafe and football ground in Lugogo to mention but five places.
The trick good schools use is rather a simple one and it only takes one serious school to pioneer it. It is the same tricks schools like Kitende, Namugongo, Valley college and Ntare's of this world use. Ntare may have declined largely due to indiscipline but I believe the trick has done wonders there too. Its 'wonderland' .......... sorry this has been taken by UHURU KENYATTA. I have interacted with students from some these schools during their holidays, put a Mvara, Ombaci, Nyapea, Muni, Ediofe, Koboko kid in there, they can score A's in all the subjects carried from O'level to A'Level in their numbers. If you carry 8 subjects, this will be 64 plus 1 in GP. My verdict now seems to be that our current efforts are good but there is only one thing that is missing. We are educating responsible citizens but others are educating winners. Our economic disadvantages seem to play a big role in this. For as long as our poverty levels continue to lead in this country our poor results will follow us wherever we go. Even when we bring our kids to Kampala what we can afford are not A' listed schools. We even failed to get the mark and entry after P7 or O level in the first place. Now the funds from westnile scholarship trust are a drop in the ocean and therefore not enough to alleviate poverty of a region that has been sidelined for this long. A library sounds like an affordable idea but is it really books? Most of the omgboko is smoked using some of the latest editions of Abott, Functional approach, and song of lawino books. Do these good schools actually have these books. Who will guide our kids to known approaches? One of my beneficiaries (with due respect) is a slow learner and I have acquired every known pamphlet for all the subjects he is doing but 'clean my tears'. The problem of approach still remains and I feel sometimes like going back to school to see if really alot has changed. When do our teachers finish their syllabus? If we get answers to some of these questions, then we will be half way there. Therefore hypothetically, the best guy from Erusi who manages to get admitted to Kisubi for Olevel deserves to be supported and the scholarship will help more if he stays on that path because we just dont have the resources to support a massive turnaround. A few books to Mvara, Ombaci Ediofe will produce our Adriko's, Okuni's and Worodria's of our present day but it wont put us on the map as a region. If that makes us happy then we already have a few from these good scholls who did quite well. Just look at the list of best students and you will find about 10 in 200 from westnile. Wipe my tears again!!!!!!! Rotary Club of Bushenyi is considering sponsoring a young disadvantaged girl who passed from one of the typical rural schools in the hills of Buhweju with a 5 in P7. She was admitted to Namagunga for S1 but two weeks from the deadline for reporting, she is still in the village. We have visited and talked to this girl and I am yet to find a clever girl her type. A marvel. Our only limitation is we have fees out of a project only for one year at any good school but we want the district of Buhweju to consider sponsoring her until completion of O'level. We have pulled strings and apparently Bweranyangi has accepted to give her a place because Bweranyangi has been benefiting from a sponsorship program from us for eight girls there over the last six years. Now the last groups are about to get out of there. Now there is no continuity for our Buhweju girl and that is what really scares me about programs we start big and leave mid way and no body really goes beyond the surface. Lets rethink our strategy and focus. Thank you and I say all this in absolute good faith and knowing you my friends that we share alot in common and our times are just not these ones. Excuse me for the grammatical mistakes because this is one of longest contributions in this forum and I have no time to recap for now. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gordon and good people, we have been through this year in and year > out, when UNEB announces results at any level, every time, I feel like a > person awaiting the outcome of a complicated surgery. There is that moment > when the silence of a Doctor emerging from the theater tells the story. > Question is do the Local Authorities feel this pain as much as we do, Are > school administrators saddened by failure rate the way we are. If a head > master has the guts to refer a senior, prominent and influential person or > citizen who is an OB to a school to the Deputy in charge of academics to > answer a simple query, does that not speak volumes about the attitude of > School Administrators about education in our schools. It is frustrating. In > some districts, Local Authorities punish head teachers whose schools enjoy > mediocrity. SHOULD WE CONVEN A STAKE HOLDERS meeting in Arua involving all > head teachers, political leaders, Civil Servants, Parents, Students, > religious leaders, business and opinion leaders, academics and elders and > prominent sons and daughters of the region in other words representatives > of the above class and come up with a lasting solution to the educational > malaise in our region. We need such a convention in West Nile > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:11 AM, George Afi Obitre-Gama <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Brethren, > > I have gone through the today's Monitor list(pg 8) of A-level rankings one > by one(1-273) without seeing our prominent schools in West Nile apart from > Mvara SS which is ranked a whooping no. 187!!! I don't see Ombaci, Muni, > Nyapea and others and they happen not be listed - probably my eyes are > getting old!! > > Tabu Butagira should probably clarify if another list exists - otherwise I > see the performance as already pathetic not withstanding the fact that the > best P7 Pupil in West Nile got an agg 7. > > I am very angry and annoyed. What is happening? Are we not engaging our > youngsters enough!! > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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