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Education has historically been the bridge to success ,today it is not.The E students are doctors,nurses,lawyers and so on,merit is no longer applied but money.This simply means ,the key to success in this country is money,not education. It's not surprising that most of those schools that are burning are public schools, and your guess is as good as mine when it comes to who are majority in these schools.
When I was a student in high school,you could easily see the hard working folk,'A' students who believed they have their future in their hands,today I do stalk at these bright students, they are jobless or doing clerical jobs,while the lazy and troublesome guys I knew are already lawyers, engineers or working in big organizations.
In other words, our education is no longer responsive to the needs of the job market, and the result is that today you only succeed ,not depending on your papers qualifications but who you know ,what you have or who your father is.
Secondly, we have over the years watched our education system drift from skill-based to exam-based.The parents of today went through either the old education system or this education system when you needed to pass with flying colours to succeed, and notion still exist in the majority of parents' mind and even those who failed in the exams have been pushing their children to perform.
The pressure has piled over the years and teachers being under pressure to show their schools as performing ones,have resorted to what is called ,"drilling " in private schools,and even more crude methods in public schools which includes suspending the under performers,denying them chance to participate in co-curriculum activities, creating extra time in cases where students are told to report earlier in opening days than the rest and so on.After our students seeing that they are being pushed over the cliff,they either try to cheat in exams,or avoid them at any given opportunity.
Sometimes back,the professors and doctors of this country were the role models of the school goers.They were mainly known to be people who rose from poverty to riches through working hard in school.Today things have changed ,politicians are the role models in our society and most of them have no genuine college papers. These politicians are forming committees to discuss school issues, come up with resolutions and even make inflated statements that implicate those who are supposed to soberly face the situation and come up with viable solutions.Our students are reading double standards,and they would rather try to game the system ,just like the powerful politicians do.
Finally, the education system is not inspiring hope, and what we are seeing today is a tip of an iceberg,we need to address the underlying misgivings of our system. Let's have an education system that gives students skills and hope ,so that they will feel they need it.Only by that shall we have students protecting their schools and not burning them.
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