Parents still hesitate to enroll their
children for school in NW & SW
By Johnson Batuo in Kumba
Despite assurances and promises by the
Government that schools in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon would open for
the 2017 / 2018 Academic year come September 2017, it would appear parents in
Kumba Meme division are not prepared to enroll their children for the next
academic year.
Admission
into government schools in Kumba for forms one and other forms were slated to
start on Monday 26 June 2017. Some of
these announcements were carried on local radio stations while others were
posted at vantage positions in the streets.
Despite these announcements and
other forms of publicity, prospective form one students still failed to show up
for interview.
When we visited some of the
government schools three days after the purported admission of students was
supposed to start, we found no potential students around.
But the principals, discipline
masters and other administrative staff and PTA presidents were present in all
the schools.
Yet, some of the principals still
expressed the wish and hope that enrollment would pick up as the months go
by. But most parents we talked to were
of the opinion that with the intransigence and stubbornness of the government
to solve the Anglophone problem they cannot allow their children to go to
school especially given the looming uncertainty.
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