Hi Colleagues,
Thank you. I hope all of u are in god moods and health. I have read some of the
comments about Fr. Picho's research. We need to go beyond the findings of the
report. He has done the diagnosis and let's administer the right medicine. Some
of you have already provided that or are personally involved in one way or the
other. I commend that. We need to ask: why are teachers not in class today but
they offered their best to help some of us. I sat P7 in 1988 at Otravu P7 in
Maracha County then. Teachers gave their best for no pay. Their pride was
candidates passing with good grades. Children would pass from any corner of
West Nile. We used to hear of Ciloa, Kololo, Oriajini, Maracha, Paranga,
Nyarilo, Teremunga, Lodonga Demo, Arua Demo...and the list is endless. I
remember the late Mr. John Moro the then Inspector of Schools going on bicycle
to supervise schools. District officials like Mr.Chaigga (RIP) were ever in
schools. We would gather around Mr.
Chaigga's motorbike to admire it because piki pikis were rare. The rest is
history.
Some of u have correctly mentioned as to head teachers are supervised from
district headquarters. I used to see Nyaparas and Joagos assessing children who
did not want to go to school to pay "musoro". That alone would force them to go
to school. Parents supported teachers in their work. Parents would come and
thatch teachers' houses, drill pit latrines in schools. Nyaparas were
everywhere at disco places ("danji") chasing away school children.
I would go on and on, but let me not waste your precious time. The question we
need to ask is, Why are those things not happening now despite the handsome
figures given to us by politicians? Why is there no community role or
involvement today like in the past? Was UPE misunderstood? Somebody somewhere
is not telling the whole truth. Do we still believe our politicians who
reprimand teachers for asking an extra coin to improve learning in schools?
One disease of Ugandans, with due respect to the researchers, is elitism. Many
people have done good researches have been done. So what? Unless we become more
practical we shall continue to cry and cry and those who can will send their
children to Kampala. Lastly how many of us on this forum studied from Kla and
its environs? Where are our Ombaci, Mvara, Nyapea, Koboko, Warr,...not
mentioning the primary schools.. in this equation.
ASEA BASIL.
Why are pare
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Carmello Draga <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Carmello Draga <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Dr Picho Research Results
To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:47 PM
Jackson,
Thanks for this very important research document from Fr.Dr.Picho.Much as the
research covered Yumbe,i think most if not all of the findings cut across other
Districts especially issues like absenteeism by teaching staff,parental
negligence,indiscipline,poor Head teacher-teacher relationship etc are common
aspects in most schools.For instance finding from Nyoko are more less the same
with most Schools in Obongi in Moyo, Udupi,Uriama and Omugo in Terego,Yivu in
Maracha,Kuniro in Koboko etc.If i can recall years ago some of these gaps were
raised in this forum and were not given attention to and i believe this could
be the time to analyse Fr,Picho;s findings further and objectively tackle where
possible.On some personal note i have being sending some end of Month or term
exams from some of the primary School from Kampala,Entebbe,Mukono(e.g
Savio,Namilyango Jr,Namagunga etc which to some extent has helped improve
perfomance to some extent though there is still the challenge of appropriate
ability of some teachers in skills orientation.
I am tempted to say that there is very minimal supervision of education sector
by the responsible District heads and i do not know whether the DEO;s and
inspectorate of schools are effective and efficient and some one will
eventually concur with me that some of these people have over stayed in these
positions without positive results that they don't deserve to be there and are
no transfers of DEOs especially Arua sorry if i have mentioned in particular
district.You see instead of these people visiting or inspecting schools,the HMs
visit them ironically,so what do expect,God help us
The stifled foundation stage education in the primary school impacts greatly to
the upper levels and if those gaps are not fixed, then we expected more cries
with some
severe repercussions that the likes of Fagils call mediocre which shall be
Well when it comes to the ailing education and health matters of WN, I am
tempted to write much,please ignore the grammar and pick necessaries
Thanks
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, JohnAJackson <[email protected]> wrote:
From: JohnAJackson <[email protected]>
Subject: [WestNileNet] Dr Picho Research Results
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 7:33 PM
I recovered this document from my archives and forwarded to www.westnile.net,
and asked Kigundu Mukasa to make it available. If you do not get it, please
send me personal email and I can send it for you
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