Politics of education in the SE The dream of every Igbo parent is to give their children the best education they can afford. In Igboland and rest Nigeria (even rest of the world inclusive) today it is unarguable that better education is gotten at the private sector where choice is offered. Every parent wants to give tneir children a better start than he or she received in early life, this is more glaring seeing that many Ndigbo has gotten more affluent as the vestiges of the civil war continue to leave us. The standard of primary and secondary schools has been on a downwards trajectory as more and more private schools spring up all around us. Our churches has been a strong factor on this as the more affluent churches has built and is successfully running their own schools. The fees for these schools change as their names do. The basic difference between all these private schools and the govt run schools is the obvious fact that there are not free. Its frankly the poorest in our society who send tneir kids to govt schools in Igboland. The students from both private and government run secondary schools sit for WAEC exams together. When tne results are released, there is no distinction made about candidates who took the exams from the schools run by the govt and those whose education is being made possible by their parents ability to pay only. The issue is various governments in the SE assuming credit for improved results as evidence of the governments efforts when that does not tell the entire story. Any government everywhere in tne world is always predisposed to bend facts to its favour and the its up to citizens to see through it when it is glaring. Allowing this facts to go unchallenged will give our govts a false sense of accomplishment and we will end up having more uneducated kids gowing up to be a challenge to our society. Getting a data that shows the facts of how our govts are doing is not rocket science. The govt knows the school of every student who takes exams. It can sort the students from private schools and public schools and then take credit or not for tne trajectory that data will show. All this Anambra is now number 1, Imo has fallen, Abia is rising more than anyone else is taking all of us for a ride. All the SE govts needs to make education one of their priorities. Anyone who thinks education is expensive knows nothing about illiteracy. Have you ever tried to deal with a stark illiterate even in your native language? I am amazed to how our illiterate elders in tne villages are so full of wisdom and knowledge while same cannot be said of tne young illiterate. Dealing with young illiterates makes you want to cry. Education is a serious business.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:59:09 +0000
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