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From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Nursery Boarding School!
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
Musajja,
I agree with you. This is crazy! A Nursery Boarding school is beyond
belief!
At what point will this kind of money thirst lead people? There is no way
a nursery/kindergarden boarding school can be in the interest of the
child's learning and educational ability.
I myself went to a secondary boarding school and I must say that it was the
worst decision my parents made for me. At first I liked the idea because I
wanted to experience boarding life. I missed my parents, siblings, home,
and homefriends like crazy! And when it came time to come back home, I had
to re-learn how to interact with my own parents, siblings, and homefriends.
It was a weird feeling.
I don't know about other people's feelings. But for me, whenever I took
long to interact with certain people, I had to re-learn how to live with
them again. I mean, my parents, siblings, and homefriends were
kind-of-sort-of like halfway strangers in my perspective. There was some
kind of emotional distance between them and I. It created some kind of
emotional attachment disorder which I felt (that weird feeling).
The good thing is that when I came back home for a very good amount, long
period of time, I caught up with parents, siblings, and homefriends - we
bonded again.
To hell with boarding schools for young kids in nursery/kindergarden.
These children need their parents 24/7 for emotional security and
psychological development before anything else. If my parents took me (if
I was child that young) to a nursery boarding school, I would die!
Hahahah, oh really? Would I? I don't know. But I would be a very
confused child. As a child: give me my parents or give me death!
Rehema M.
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d b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ugandans ae about to migrate to Mars - imagine a Nursery Boarding school.
May be I never understood what I learnt from School - you take a baby to a
nursery boarding school - goodness.
bwanika.
and this
The school’s extra-curriculum offers include music, dance and drama, sports
and games, swimming, brass band, digital television (DSTV) connections and
a fully equipped disco machine to entertain the children.
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Pioneering nursery, primary boarding schools in Uganda
Movers & Shakers: By Ibrahim Kasita
Oct 26 - Nov 2, 2004
Basic education providers must not be taxed at the same high level as
commercial institutions, says Mr Vincent Matovu, proprietor and headmaster
of Vincentalex Boarding Primary School.
The school is located in Mukono, 20Km from Kampala City centre on the just
off the Jinja-Kampala highway.
“We provide social services to the people in order to eradicate illiteracy.
But we are taxed as if we are commercialising the education services,” he
says. “Government should scrutinise business oriented schools and genuine
education providers before hiking tax on us.”
For the last 20 years, since he opened the first nursery boarding school in
Uganda. Matovu has been involved in private education in Mukono District.
“I started my school to experiment the new approach of teaching young
kids,” he says.”At that time, children were taken for granted and taught
forcefully — something which could not generate interest in learning.”
Teaching young ones need logic. They require freedom to generate interest
in learning and guide them what is good for them, he further says.
Matovu, who is a professional teacher specialising in child psychology, was
a teacher in Kisaasi Primary School and Namiryango Juniour Boys School,
before his enterpreneurial instincts took better of him.
“I first rented land in Seeta in 1984 to set up the nursery school for four
years before acquiring land in Mukono,” he recalls.
Pioneering nursery, primary boarding schools in Uganda
At the time of setting up the nursery school several areas around Kampala,
especially Mukono were insecure because of the intensive civil strife in
the country. Ironically this is one of the reasons that prompted Matovu.
“Children are innocent,” he says. “In fact it is because of insecurity that
I started a school to provide them with the security as their parents were
hiding from the enemies.”
Why did he choose Mukono? I bought a piece of land suitable for
constructing a school, he replies.
Vincentalex is now a fully-fledged boarding nursery and primary school. It
has both day and boarding students with varying school fees. Nursery to
primary three students pay Shs270,000 (boarding) and Shs170,000 (day) per
term.
Primary four and primary seven students pay Shs330,000 (boarding) and
Shs230,000 (day) per term. Matovu is worried about the infiltration of rich
people into the field of primary education who aim at making profit. Such
people are not always teaching professionals.
And their involvement has lowered the standard of education and led to an
increase of violent strikes against schools.
Matovu calls such people “multiplication table planners.”
He says, “With the liberalisation of the education sector, standards of
education have improved vastly. However, there are those wealthy people who
have invested in building school just to make money but not considering the
standards of education.”
In the hands of private sector, and where management is driven by
revenue-generation and competition, schools are bound to collapse, he says,
because parents will pay for good services.
For this reason, despite the introduction of Universal Primary Education in
1997, many parents have opted to put their children into private schools
and this is reflected in the mushrooming number of new private schools.
Matovu says money matters because it allows the implementation of new
programmes, not for profit.
Vincentalex has won accolades including the Children Challenge Week in
Mombasa two years consecutively from 1994-1996.
Matovu explains that sometimes private schools have budget shortfalls in
the middle of the term, which affects their operations in providing
education.
Sometimes, parents forget to visit their children and leave everything to
school authorities. The schools charges just one fee that covers all
requirements plus pocket money. A parent pays Shs330, 000 a term.
Matovu is pleased that liberalisation of education has resulted in higher
literacy and better health for children.
He says the standards of education must be the priority and then money.
“Business comes on how to build the school, payment of teachers and
implementation of school policies”.
Matovu is convinced that the liberalisation of the education sector is the
only way to go, he would like to commend government for the conducive
atmosphere for competition.
For his part, Matovu is so convinced that liberalisation of the education
sector is the only way to go, he would like to commend the government for
the conducive atmosphere for competition. He is also grateful for
government.
“I thank the government for rendering the atmosphere for competition of
education providers,” he says. “If such atmosphere continues, then the best
service providers will survive and those poor ones will be eliminated out
of business.”
Matovu has enormously benefited from travelling abroad. He says his foreign
tours have helped him discover what is offered in schools abroad.
“I have been able to find out what is offered abroad, copy it and offer it
to our children here,” he says.
One such idea is to offer computer lessons to children at an early age. At
Vincentalex boarding schools computer lessons (offered from primary three
to primary seven) are compulsory and free. The school also has a website,
www.geocities.com/vincentalexuganda.
The school’s extra-curriculum offers include music, dance and drama, sports
and games, swimming, brass band, digital television (DSTV) connections and
a fully equipped disco machine to entertain the children.
Future plans including construcing a theatre, and a swimmig pool.
The school headmaster can be contacted at 077-451753. Parents can reach
their children at 041-290246.
Bwanika
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