Parents stand up,be counted

Recently, in this space we expressed our shock at the disastrous Junior Certificate Examination (JCE) results.  After the release of the JCE there was too much finger pointing and blame game. The Minister of Education and Skills Development, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi in particular took too much flak for this sad state of affairs.  Venson-Moitoi did not take this lightly, the Rottweiler that she is, fired back on all cylinders.  She blamed a number of stakeholders including parents, teachers, students, opposition parties and her own government.

In this blame game she only forgot to blame herself. The nation did not gain anything from this blame shifting. Since Batswana treat education seriously, everybody wanted his/her voice to be heard.  And they were right because the situation was now at a crisis level.  Because there were too many political points to score, we forgot that research studies have shown that parental involvement can make a huge difference.