It has been revealed that the current poor academic
performance by students in most secondary schools across the country is
due to poor preparations in primary schools.
Commenting on the dismal performance recorded in Pangani district last year, Emmanuel Mlelwa, District’s Education Officer (DEO) told journalists at the press conference here over the weekend that poor groundwork, coupled with ‘let it go’ attitude of most students, was a major factor for poor academic performance to most schools in last year’s national examinations.
According to him, many students have little interest of studying, including reading books, delinquency among students and an unexpected pregnancies were also problems.
Mlelwa refuted claims from one of the journalists that some girl students were being confined as concubines by unscrupulous characters.
“I have not come across such a problem; though like you, I have also been hearing such unconfirmed acts of misconduct,” he asserted, adding that discipline among students in the district leave a lot to be desired.
Elaborating more, he said the district’s performance during past form four examinations was an eye-sore.
He said, for four years continuously, the district has been doing badly as far as enrolment in higher education is concerned-giving example of last year where only seven students were selected for higher education out of 625 who sat for the examination.
He says it is not possible to expect wonders from pupils who joined secondary education without proper academic base.
Commenting on the dismal performance recorded in Pangani district last year, Emmanuel Mlelwa, District’s Education Officer (DEO) told journalists at the press conference here over the weekend that poor groundwork, coupled with ‘let it go’ attitude of most students, was a major factor for poor academic performance to most schools in last year’s national examinations.
According to him, many students have little interest of studying, including reading books, delinquency among students and an unexpected pregnancies were also problems.
Mlelwa refuted claims from one of the journalists that some girl students were being confined as concubines by unscrupulous characters.
“I have not come across such a problem; though like you, I have also been hearing such unconfirmed acts of misconduct,” he asserted, adding that discipline among students in the district leave a lot to be desired.
Elaborating more, he said the district’s performance during past form four examinations was an eye-sore.
He said, for four years continuously, the district has been doing badly as far as enrolment in higher education is concerned-giving example of last year where only seven students were selected for higher education out of 625 who sat for the examination.
He says it is not possible to expect wonders from pupils who joined secondary education without proper academic base.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
