Child rearing: A community affair

Almost all parents look forward to that day when the school would step in to contribute its fair share in the raising of their little precious ones. All parents desire the best schools on offer and given a choice no parent would pick a school that would not help unleash their children’s potential and prepare them sufficiently to navigate with relative ease the world beyond school. Resources permitting, no parent worth his/her salt would send children to a school that has a reputation for presiding over the destruction of the future of children under its care.

But sadly, an overwhelming number of children from low income and poverty stricken backgrounds are forced by economic imperatives to settle for that very public school in the proximity of their homes. For many children living in remote areas, this could be the only school they have ever known. Choice does not exist for parents whose children find themselves in this predicament. Even when not content with the school’s reputation and educational outcomes, the learners are simply stuck here. It is destiny.