Agent XR’S report
Only the Zimbabwean student can tell the tale. After passing, all that one can do is sigh for relief as it is never a sure-to-win race. Zimbabweans pride themselves in having this stressful curriculum that allows only around twenty percent of students to pass and it seems no one is worried yet about creating a whole generation of not-so-dull hooligans who could have made it elsewhere. The few places that seem to allow our youths who failed the first time to try again are in actual facts rubbish dumps and do nothing other than waste monthly fees and precious time.
My first question is: WHO LICENCES PRIVATE COLLEGES TO COMMENCE SERVICE PROVISION?? I had the chance to observe a certain private school from an internal vantage point. The school is an understaffed dump because of cost-cutting and it uses an unfinished building that was clearly meant to be a house. To pretend like everything is alright because your kids are at such a school is deceiving oneself. They claim to take the rejects and try to rehabilitate the poor souls by providing equal chances as those of the better half of the normal distribution curve but for a school with no time table, I doubt much is done to that extent. Someone please close down these perpetrators of doom before it is too late.
My second question is: WHY SHOULD IT BE AN INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL IF IT IS NOT EVEN AN EXAM CENTRE?? One of my questions to the students was if they ever had a follow up of results after collection and the response shocked me. This particular college was not an exam center and the students sat for exams elsewhere, did not collect their results at the school and there was no results analysis of any sort that took place. So in other words, the school did not have any performance appraisal of any sort and therefore there is no room for improvement simply because improvement is just not an option for them. No one can measure their performance and effectiveness so no one can condemn them (PRETTY CLEVER HUH?)
I had the chance to interact with students who are regarded as dull and hopeless by a school that claims to be their Messiah. Why the school can be an approved body in a country like ours where education is the only way to prosper is just a wonder. The more these schools are opened , the lower the national passrate and indeed, the lower the chances of anyone who failed before to pass. With no books and no research facilities at all, how can it be called a school? How can they keep these sprouting angels of doom mushrooming? Standards should be set and kept. We do not need more useless schools in this country, they are making things worse. So, if you have someone of yours who is at one of these sprouting colleges, this is the time for a reality check. Does that school have a formal school time table? Is it an exam centre? What facilities for research do they have? Ask yourself a myriad of questions. We can not live in the shadow of these schools’ deception anymore…..it is just not worth it. We keep losing 80 percent of our youths every year to this monster they call failure and this is the time to put deceivers out of business.
Agent XR on the case
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