Fail And Discontinue

That our students are failing is no longer news. It’s now stale, boring news. I wrote about this same thing last year after another round of disastrous student results. This year, the top senior school scored an embarrassing 50% while the second scored a laughable 35%.

One doesn’t even need to wonder about how the rest of the pack fared, especially the one at the bottom. It just gets worse with each year though the powers-that-be would want us to believe that there has been a ‘minimal’ improvement this time around.

Last year I suggested that our generation may just be unknowingly giving birth to dull kids. In the absence of any other plausible explanation, I still stand by my words. When the results came out, I could not help but reminisced my own school years. I schooled in an era where teachers were third in the hierarchy of the most feared beings, only second to God and his angels.  If it happened that you took a wrong route, then came face-to-face with your teacher outside school hours, you had to do a vanishing act fast, or else you would pay dearly for it the next day at school. They were that powerful.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...

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