Education: The busiest entity
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 80 Views |
Men and women are hard at work striving to create more and better learning in order to secure the future of our children. Recognising the challenges besieging the system, Parliament continues to allocate more financial resources to education.
There is no doubt about the political will needed to push the education reforms agenda. However, there is very little positive change to show and speak of in spite of all the energies and financialss invested in the system.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...