MATANTALA Rural Integrated Development Enterprise [M-RIDE] Board Chairman Mark Chona has said teachers must teach in order to inspire children to learn and excel and not to be molesters.
Addressing parents and teachers during the solar electrification of Chona Basic School, Mr.Chona said teachers must teach in order to inspire children to learn and excel and not to be molesters of the children they were teaching.
“But teachers, who must be highly respected, cherished and pursuing a very noble profession sometimes poses a threat to the girl child’s future. Too many times parents in the country complain about teachers abusing their young children who, unfortunately, fall pregnant and are squeezed out of school at a tender age,” he said.
Chona said teachers must be guardians of the children in school and must not turn into their molesters and destroyers of their future.
He said the prosperity of the rural areas and the country in general would be more assured with an educated women population.
“We must pay attention to the fate of the girl child; the majority of young girls drop out of school starting at grade five, the downward progression after grade five must not be tolerated. Very few girls make it into grade nine, let alone in grade 12 and beyond,” he observed.
Chona said by preventing the girl child from completing school at high school levels, the nation was losing the potential drivers of change in national development and cannot achieve the Millennium Development Goals [MDG’s], adding that parents were a key in preventing early pregnancies and early marriages.
He said despite constructing and providing 32 schools in Chief Chona’s area, there were still thousands of children of school going age that were out of school and languishing in villages facing a bleak future.
“Long distances to school, treacherous rivers and streams, hilly terrain all make regular school attendance difficult and often results in poor academic performance.More schools and classrooms as well as adequate accommodation for qualified teaching staff are desperately needed,” he said.
YALIKOSA PA Z
thats the way to go..away from Politics now to NGOs..feed your family mudala..!!
That is the right way big man. Also ensure that you electrify Nadongo Basic School as well and the clinic at Nadongo is functional. Include the rehabilitation of the Road to Nadongo on your action plan. Recently, a terrible accident happened a long this disastrous road in which the teacher’s wife lost her life.