Use K1 mil to buy books not uniforms

 THE K1 million spent by the Morobe provincial government on school uniforms is a total waste of money that will do nothing in furthering the educational progress of our school children. 

Our schools in the remote areas are in need of library reading books and teaching aid books for the teachers. 

With the increase in the Grades Point Average (GPA)  requirements in tertiary institutions and the poor student performance at the tertiary level, our provincial governments should put more emphasis in student’s educational content in the classroom rather than waste funds on a one of incentive. 

Our school students need knowledge to support them in life and to assist them in furthering their educational dreams. 

Looking neat is not a requirement in calculating student GPA grades for higher academic purposes. 

That K1 million allocated to all districts in this vaast province can assist in providing a thousand kina worth of reading books to each schools. 

Books will help our children to acquire knowledge in English,  math, science, agriculture, history, moral ethics as well as law, commerce and trade and even basic health and safety. 

Basic and important reading materials that can equip and educate our next generation to both progresses to higher educational institutions whilst maintaining a high standard of academic result and at the same time teaching them the basic life skills to sustain them through their stages in lives as they progress from being students into adult hood and marriage. Furthermore, it can also allow them to contribute meaningful to our country’s growth as human resources.  

Though schools must teach our school children to dress and groom themselves, I believe that responsibility is solely that of parents. 

Thus, the Government must challenge parents to take up their yoke of their responsibility to their child like buying school uniforms so that the government itself can be allowed to take up its own yoke of bringing in real life changing things like a hundred thousand reading books.

If we provide our children with the right knowledge, they will be able to cloth themselves when they graduate from universities and colleges and find employment.  

Clothes will become rags in only a year while acquired knowledge is a resource that can be used for a life time.

Gilinde Kitoria

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