Dear Fellow WestNilers, Another crucial and evident issue especially affecting the education situation in the region is the issue of private schools who want to or have tendencies of operating at a very low cost at the execuse of fighting competition Such tencies means getting low cost teachers,low cost instructional materials hence low/poor out put inform of performance. I think indeed if our leaderes that we send to represent us in parliament may not deliberate on such issues to moderate people/investors who might not have the capacity to establish ventures like education then the problem shall persist for generations . Remember all these factors are inter-related meaning they affect all the other aspects of the region economically,socially,Environmentally as well as poliyically Regards Data Emmanuel On Jan 5, 2016 5:25 PM, "Peter Odama" <peter.od...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Avudria, > > I like your elaboration, my own analysis shows our teachers are not > updated and can't research enough for the pupils to understand. And one day > get any past paper let them sit on spot and have the marking guide ready > from UNEB. Not all will get 100% and this is the paper they teach. How do > you expect children to pass. A kid in Kampala P.1 can write and read better > than a P.6 in rural areas. UPE has worsened every thing, before we were > doing well,free things come at a cost. > > 2ndly we have failed to provide an adequate support to our children as we > excessively over produce for a low income families to cope as a result > children are poorly fed and lack most nutritional food values that builds > their creativity and intelligence hence low IQ. Even sending children to > school with packed snacks that's available at home for break fast is a > problem to parents, can I tell you children feel more hungrier than adults? > How do you expect them to concentrate. We must empower PTAs to start paying > contributions by patents for food and scholastics to be managed at school > And PTA chairman > > 3rdly government and other private investors have failed to bring in > sustainable opportunities to boost our communities as a such low income > that is viral > On Jan 5, 2016 8:04 PM, "JohnAJackson" <javud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> - If you look back at the UNEB results from PLE, O-Level, A-Level >> for the last 10 years or so, there is nearly 80 % - 95% failure rate is >> schools in West Nile region. The same may be true for other regions >> outside >> Kampala. >> - Is privatization of education (private schools without staff) >> killing the basic fabric of education in this region? Do we have qualified >> teachers teaching in these schools? Are these teachers paid or paid on >> time? Are teachers motivated educators? Does this massive school drop out >> rate concern politicians from this region? What are our politicians doing >> to address this problem? What is the long term socio-economic impact of >> this massive school drop out rate on our own communities in the West Nile >> region or Uganda for that matter? >> - "Chewing Mirraa" has taken over a generation of youth not only in >> towns but reaching out into villages. "Mirraa" is cannabis. It is an >> addictive drug similar to marijuana. Doing nothing about the propagation >> of Mirraa (cannabis) is a disaster for this region. We have seen the >> number >> of mental cases rising up in this region. Do our politicians from this >> region have a strategy to look at alternative cash crops which people can >> grow to earn income rather than growing Mirraa that leads to self >> destruction of our own communities? >> - We have one of the worst history of maternal health care system in >> the region. There were recent pictures taken from Arua regional hospital >> Maternity Ward where some expectant mothers lay on the floor and another >> one bleeding. Seeing these type of pictures are horrifying. What is going >> in this hospital? Is it that nurses don't care about their patients? >> Nurses >> and medical staff are paid because of these patients who need their care. >> Is the problem in this hospital (and others) lack of customer care? If >> this >> is the case, what does it take to educate nurses (medical staff) to have >> empathy/sympathy/mercy of these expectant mothers or patients? >> - Deforestation of heavily populated parts of West Nile region has >> become a serious environmental problem. If you look at areas like Terego, >> Maracha, Madi Okollo, these areas have lost almost all the natural forest. >> As our population depends on wood fuel nearly 100%, we need to step up >> campaign on *Tree Planting education.* This may sound like a simple >> problem but we can see obvious consequences of environmental destruction. >> Rivers where we used to fish are drying up during hot season. Today you >> can >> jump over Enyau river during dry season. Who could accomplish this in >> 1970s >> or 1980s? I am posting everyone images of Lake Chad for you guys to see >> the impact of human activity on the environment.( >> http://www.unep.org/dewa/vitalwater/article116.html) >> >> JJ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WestNileNet mailing list >> WestNileNet@kym.net >> 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 > WestNileNet@kym.net > 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). 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