Making schools count :: Mmegi Online

Ideally in a school setting, learners should be the epicentre of everything. The children are the sole reason why schools exist and why teachers, support staff and school managers come to work every day. Every activity should be geared towards advancing the interests of learners.

Other things are secondary. Rachel E. Curtis and Elizabeth A. City say a school system should all times “remember children.” And this reminds me of an experience I had with one of the foreign education consultants then engaged in the production of Botswana’s Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP).

I had returned from a long education meeting dealing with the subject of customer satisfaction as it relates to payment of suppliers. And he asked whether anybody in the process of the meeting mentioned the word learner. Nobody did, I honestly answered.

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