Sebo Ssenya,
Ossenya, ossenya: Yyi musajja, Ossenya nkku oba nnyange? Ssenyange! Hahahaha.
I've been good. I've been away for a while. Thanks for your welcome! I appreciate that. It seems you are the only person who truely likes me here. You are happy to see me back. I am honoured, really. Kannesuneko, I'm very happy.
Honey moon ejja, sooner or later. Hahaha, LOL. You are a funny guy. Do you know that? I'll be around and I hope to see more of you.
Zakoomu M.
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ssenya nyange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mky Mukooza,
Where have been? Were you on honey moon? Welcome back on the net.
Ssenya
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>From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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 ma de 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, spor ts
>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.”
>F or 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 infiltr ation 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 i nto 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 off ered 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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