Alaka, am convinced the 'false-comfort-zone' attitude is a major factor in the
poor academic performance. Surprisingly, these guys feel all is OK, most even
dont have a career dream, yet this usually fuels the drive to aim high. Instead
they actually aim low as you have elaborated. Ironically, we, their relatives
with some means, could inadvertently be to blame because, after getting their
poor grades, we find ourselves financing their education at the next level
(Good intentions of course and they dont have a sense of how much we are
sacrificing). This has all been made worse by the mushrooming of all sorts of
schools and 'universities', who admit whoever has some money to pay with no
regard to grades. Some so called universities in this country even admit
students with no principle pass at A'Level. Isnt that even illegal? Take this:
I was in a shortlisting panel yesterday and chanced to go through papers of an
applicant who graduated from Busoga 'University', but looking at his A'level
papers, he didnt even get a single principle pass!!, but he is a university
graduate!! BUT, we can surely motivate these guys to aim high and learn from
other regions how we can tackle the other factors. The ball is firmly in our
courts!
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:17:11 -0700
From: calebal...@yahoo.com
To: westnilenet@kym.net
Subject: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72
By the way folks, were is vol.1 issue 1.
Any way , Tabua and Gili, I understand that students from our schools in West
Nile are shy to be seen reading. The story goes further that when you are seen
"over cracking books" guys will isolate you, laugh at you and claim that you
are poor. Most of these chaps even claim that they have already booked rooms in
a hall of residence and or a prominent hostel in MUK, KIU,MUST, Kyambogo, UCU,
Nkumba, Nkozi and IUIU . they even claim that for them they are assured of
going to campus as privately sponsored students. So every one in the school
begin shunning so called 'book worms" and those who would wish to work hard
suddenly develop low self esteem. Talk of a tragic script. On the Other hand,
schools in the Central and western region are competing to appear in the
newspapers. Talk of the biblical allusion of to those who have more shall be
added and those who do not have even the small will be taken. Talk of tragic
flows, labour reserve, Kasamvu's, wars, Anyanya's, poverty and ya a collapse of
a generation. The script is nauseating and I feel sick watching the tragedy.
Good day.
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