Why the poor stand no chance in the education system

“The commercialization of courses at university level with the inclusion of the parallel programme will soon make luxurious courses such as medicine, law and engineering a preserve of the affluent in the society.”

Gone are the days when education brought uniformity amongst members of a society irrespective of their social status. Nowadays the bourgeoisies are in control of the education system building private primary schools which drill children through their cram to pass technique which has been crafted and proved effective over the years thus ensuring children of the haves in the society pass with flying colours and join the limited national high schools and best county schools in their numbers.

Those who will not have the opportunity to join national schools and county schools due to their below par performance will head to private high schools for advanced drilling to justify the capita investment of their parents. Here spoon-feeding is the order of the day considering the favorable teacher-student ratio mostly 1:25 at most. Making them record business attractive mean scores such as 399.9999 in primary level and 10.999 in secondary level to boost the student enrollment numbers the following year.

 

Children from a public school studying under a tree

Whereas their colleagues in the public sector, a hustlers paradise where everything is low; low teacher student ratio, low book ratio, low morale due to low remuneration of teachers and low class attendance. The only thing, which is high, is the student population which leads to ‘mediocre’ mean scores that depicts teachers as jokers who just come to school for the sake of their salaries.

Here, 'read to understand' technique applies, if you can’t understand the train has just left you at the station. Students from these schools are often faced with financial challenges but those who manage to join national and top county schools become instant performers who are found on the upper sphere of the academic merit list.

The number of parallel students in competitive courses such as medicine, law and engineering has either doubled or tripled the number of their government sponsored counterparts, since varsities claim they don’t have the ‘capacity’ to train them but they always have capacity to train the privately sponsored students! Courses such as piloting are a preserve of the rich whereas the poor shift their focus to Education and other art courses which the government willingly sponsors them in their numbers. Some of these courses are ‘irrelevant’ to the current job market, this is a case of generational poverty where the poor are to remain poor until the Lord returns