lmmm, this my mouth
In April 2001 when I wrote my BECE and May 2004 when writing my SSSCE, one person who never came to mind was the president of at the time, John Agyekum Kufour, I just didn’t care about him as far as my exams was concerned. It was all about me.
Difficult questions reminded me of the months I spent writing rap and rehearsing to perform on stage and those teachers who come in to crack jokes.
For many years, this has been the case until government decided to not only make education accessible but also use it as avenue for scoring political points.
Talks like, make me proud, don’t let me down, Nana’l Graduates and other rhetorics created the impression that some people wanted the kids to fail to undermine the government. For three years government has targetted these kids as though a vote plant ready for harvest in the 2020 elections.
Now, let’s look at this….
You are a student, you know the government needs you to pass because your passing is important for their own bragging right. While preparing for the exams, the government says: I am giving each of you past questions for free. Some teachers take the past questions, abandon the syllabus completely and start solving the past questions because from all indications, it is the key.
Students enter the exams hall and the questions that came are not in the pasco. What will be your reaction as a students?
I hold no brief for the kids, it is not consistent with our culture for a kid to behave that way, they were wrong and that should be condemned. It is however wrong to condemn kids without reminding ourselves that they are what we made them, they only respond to how they are raised.
In any society where the government tries to be the father to the kids before the parent come into the picture, such behaviors should be expected, it happens all over the world, this is the start for us. More so in our case where every dime given by government comes with VOTE FOR ME, the kids will only overstate their importance.
We have politicise the education and the kids are behaving like the politicians, replaying the insults they hear from adults everyday and blaming another for their own failings and we are here pretending these breed of children were thrown to us from Mas.
We have made them, teachers can’t control them any longer.
Back in school, we were so cut away from the politics, we knew little of what was happening in the outside world and no one came to campus to campaign. We voted when we turned 18 basrd on how we felt, based on our attachment to a party from childhood and how we perceived the political enviroment
Today, SHS students are seen as the trump card, the final jigsaw to the 2020 puzzle so they feel embolden to misbehave. If such a system prevailed in our days, it’d have been worse because we had real big hard guys, proper oldies and super recalcitrants.
We think these tiny kids are out of hand? We would have caused a war if same condition prevailed then, but conditions were different, we were not made to feel as though key to electoral victory, it was just us and us alone left with our teachers. That sense of entitlement opens the door to stupidity
The Nana Graduate expected to be spoon-fed even in the exams, they felt Nana needs their success as much as they do if not more.
Free SHS is good, every intervention aimed at making education accessible should be encouraged, however, these should be detached from politics.
Government had no business getting involved in the pasco business because if students are well prepared, they don’t need to try and predict the possible questions. That brings us to the demon, examination, that’s an article for another day.
I have seen a number of videos on NPP platforms that has students praising the president and asking for 4 more for him. In deed, most students in our second cycle should be grateful.
However, if politicians are cool with students praising the President and campaigning for 4 more for him, then those attacking the president should not be presented as the demons, that’s how our politics is done, anyone captured looks at issues based on their party leanings.
It’s either 4 more for Nana or Nana is a waste of time.
Let’s just take the kid’s as Sammy Awuku and Sammy Gyamfi.
4 More for Nana or Mahama Afa
Works out fine right? It’s wrong to insult the President, if any of them was my kid, I’d have dealt with him. But imagine Sammy Gyamfi said it or Abronye to Mahama? We’d have taken it cool right?
Who do you think the kids learn from? Plato and Socrates?
Some of you come on social media and insult our leaders just like that, people read your posts, some are in SHS, collectively we planted bitter leaf but expected to harvest sweetener.
Today’s kids, today’s kids but the only example they see are bad example of adults.
Funny people we are.
Kofi Kyei -Media