Learning in a boy school in Kenya

  

Date Posted: 9/20/2013 6:38:00 PM

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Learning in a boy school in Kenya

I went to a boy-school after finishing my primary school education. To be honest, I liked being there. I am not saying that I would not prefer a different school to the one that I was in but it was fun. My secondary school life was very fun.

It allowed me to note the advantages of learning in a boy-school as well as its disadvantages. Well, what are some of the advantages of learning in a boy-school in Kenya?

The advantages of learning in a boy-school in Kenya
1) There is almost nothing to distract you from your books.
At teenage, most children rarely get to concentrate on their studies with people of the opposite gender around them. However, when you are temporarily isolated from people of the opposite attention, you get to concentrate more on whatever you are doing.

2) Having a lot of freedom.
As we all know, the boy-child has been neglected because most people put all their attention on helping the girl child and making sure that the girl child is happy leaving the boy child with no one to care for him. This is very bad at home, but at school, it is the best thing that can happen to you.

This is because the teachers rarely know what you are ever doing. For this reason, you have a better chance of concentrating on your studies without thinking about various school rules. For example, you could be busy reading your books when you are supposed to be sleeping or doing something else.

3) It makes you tough.
In boy schools, there are so many people who want the same things as you, for example, maybe you have just been bought a very good calculator by your parents and someone else who lost his wants to use it the same time as

you.

Not all such people will accept that they cannot use it at that time when you need it even though they know very well that you own it. Some might try to take it from you by force while others will just still it from you later on. Therefore, in times like this, you must man up and say no or even counter-attack if it comes to that.

4) Sports are a big thing.
We all like playing and in most boy schools in Kenya, sports are considered to be a big thing because the teachers and administration running the school understand enough psychology to know that many boys like playing sports a lot.

In mixed schools, sports might not be honored that much. I do ot know why but, it is what it is.

Even so, there are a few things that we must understand about learning in a boy school, it comes with a million disadvantages. I might not get to write all a million of them, but I will outline a few of them.

The disadvantages of learning in a boy school
1) It has an abnormal environment.
In the world we live in, planet earth, women actually exist all the time and they are even more that the men. For this reason, after being locked up in a boy school for at least four years, especially if you entered the school at a very young age, you might not really understand fully how to interact with people who are not of your gender.

This is because the best time to understand how to socialize with other people is while you are still very young. No matter how much you try to understand how to socialize with people of the opposite gender afterwards, you cannot fully understand it.

2) Some end up becoming too aggressive.
As I had mentioned earlier, boy schools force you to toughen up if you are ever going to survive in them. However, some people end up becoming too tough after learning in boy schools making them end up becoming criminals in their lives after school.

3) Too much of anything is poison.
Since there is usually very little supervision in boy schools, most people who learn in boy schools become very irresponsible. Also, as a result of this excess freedom, crimes happen in boy schools almost every day without anyone doing a thing about them, like bullying and even beating up other students for no good reason.

4) Being treated too roughly.
In boy schools, people expect the students to be made of steel, which is never the case. For example, if you report to a teacher that you are not feeling well and yet you are learning in a boy school, the teacher will not take you seriously and might just tell you to go back to class and “be a man”. This does not solve anything.

I am not trying to say that boy schools are extremely terrible. My point is, nothing is perfect, and the only way to get your hands on the good part of anything is to endure the bad parts. However, if you ask me, it is best to take your child to a mixed school. In mixed schools, all the normal things that you find in the outside world are there.

However, if you are a parent, before you tell your child where he or she is going to be learning, first ask them, especially for primary school pupils. I have noticed that most parents tell their children who are attending primary schools that they are too young to ever understand what they really want, and yet you keep telling them to grow up! Ha, what a joke.

Allow them to choose their own careers. A parent is simply just a guide and a friend, not a machine operator who tells his or her machine where it must go and if it does not, then he or she just throws it away. No. Be a responsible parent by giving your children the advice they need and the space they must have to follow this advice that you keep giving them.

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