Date Posted: 10/15/2012 1:29:50 PM
Posted By: Sibonje Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 164
Education is the key to success and it is one of the needs these days for a better life. Everybody has been craving for this and eventually some come to succeed. But one thing that has brought education down is the state at which the children in the rural areas undergo through in order to get it. It has been noted that education is of low standards leading to a bunch of them failing in the final exams. Most of the schools which fail the final exams are located in the rural areas which now come to my point. The studying in schools in the rural areas has the following problems. 1. Lack of teachers. Many of the trained and the best teachers always opt for the urban areas where they can receive a good pay unlike in the rural areas. Those teaching in the schools at the rural areas are normally unqualified form four leavers. They are always in to teach in the schools for their upkeep. There is a great difference between a school in the urban and a school in the rural areas. The schools in the urban areas always have adequate teachers who are trained unlike a school in the rural. The teachers are always the selected among the best whereby interviews are held. In the rural areas there is no such thing. 2. The other thing is books. There are inadequate books and students normally use one book per two students. Students normally depend on what the teacher gives them. They always say that what the teacher provides them is correct. To get a library is a miracle. Library is often a told story and no one has ever seen even a small library. So they just depend on the five or ten copies per class unlike in the urban where you can find everyone in the class having his or her own copy.3. The other thing is culture. Culture has been proved to be a major hindrance in education here in Kenya. Girls have been undergoing sexual mutilation which is against human rights. Those who have undergone this always do not return back to school because of that fear that she is different from others. Others are forced to early marriages leading to them dropping out from school.4. Scarcity of schools is another problem. Some of the children have to go for several kilometers in order to reach school. The schools are too far from home unlike the urban where you can find more than two schools in one area.5. The other thing is early pregnancies. Girls are subjected to early pregnancies before they finish school. I don't know if it due to lack of awareness or what, but it has been another problem. 6. Literacy among the parents is also another major factor. Most of the parents are semi-illiterate, and cannot help their children even in doing their homework. The children have to struggle for themselves in order to get information. Combining with lack of books makes it difficult for the children to learn. They have to go for an extra mile to ask their teachers back at school.7. Another one is the government. The government has failed in their role in ensuring better education in the rural areas. They have just been announcing about the poor performance of the schools in the rural areas but have never try to find out a remedy about this.8. The environment of the class also matters. Due to lack of schools, the students have to study in one small class hence overcrowding. There was even a case whereby the students were studying in a half built class with only a roof on top of them. The environment is not conducive for learning. The classes are always thatched and smeared walls of mud. If you compare any of the schools in the urban areas, you will not believe your eyes because there is a great difference. A school in the urban has the exact conducive environment of study.9. The other thing is the age at which the children start attending schools. Some start going to school at an adolescent stage making it difficult for the child to pick up and at last decide to drop out of school. Because the child did not grow with the mentality of learning unlike those in the urban where a child start attending lower classes at the age of three. Those are only few reasons which I have highlighted, there are more which maybe I have not stated. The schools in the rural areas have a long way to go and if the government does not intervene, then we are expecting the worse from what we are even experiencing now. I am not saying all this because I heard from someone but I myself attended a school in the rural area and I know the challenges faced by our children. So lets bring our hands together and see what we as Kenyans can do to improve the education in our own country.
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