MISSING THE IRONY OF WHOSE KIDS ARE LUXURIATING IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS. - GIMBA KAKANDA
We are missing the irony of people whose kids are luxuriating in private schools, some of them exclusively elite, attacking Malam Nasir El-Rufai's audacity to redeem public primary schools in Kaduna State.
There are occasions we should cite economic conditions in protesting an unpopular policy aimed at redeeming a long-endured horror, but that sentiment doesn't apply to the education of our children, the generation we wish to be better than us, to be better educated at least.
El-Rufai may be notoriously divisive, many times arrogant for a leader in a democratic space, but this weeding of semi-literate teachers is long overdue, and it's one of the rare moments I agree with his style. A compromise in the education of our children should never ever be a subject of advocacy, never be tolerated.
Primary schools should've been the most important aspect of any efforts to develop and sustain useful human capitals, and so it should be both of high quality and, importantly, compulsory. Some of our parents only stopped after what's today called First School Leaving Certificate, yet they are sufficiently literate, even more than some of the tragedies we call university graduates today.
On the face of a placard during a protest to challenge el-Rufai's decision is a foolish wisdom - "examination is not a true test of knowledge" or something like that. Only that what Kaduna state conducted was not exactly a test of knowledge, it was a basic test of literacy.
Gimba Kakanda
There are occasions we should cite economic conditions in protesting an unpopular policy aimed at redeeming a long-endured horror, but that sentiment doesn't apply to the education of our children, the generation we wish to be better than us, to be better educated at least.
El-Rufai may be notoriously divisive, many times arrogant for a leader in a democratic space, but this weeding of semi-literate teachers is long overdue, and it's one of the rare moments I agree with his style. A compromise in the education of our children should never ever be a subject of advocacy, never be tolerated.
Primary schools should've been the most important aspect of any efforts to develop and sustain useful human capitals, and so it should be both of high quality and, importantly, compulsory. Some of our parents only stopped after what's today called First School Leaving Certificate, yet they are sufficiently literate, even more than some of the tragedies we call university graduates today.
On the face of a placard during a protest to challenge el-Rufai's decision is a foolish wisdom - "examination is not a true test of knowledge" or something like that. Only that what Kaduna state conducted was not exactly a test of knowledge, it was a basic test of literacy.
Gimba Kakanda
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