Its responsibility of parents to push kids to put in required effort to ensure they receive high quality education.
MIRPURKHAS: It has been brought to the fore many times that the education system, particularly the public education system, is currently at its worst. In Sindh, the graph of ghost schools is rising, school buildings are turning into stables, and the poor quality of education and a declining ratio of students in schools are leading Sindh into the dark ages.
Despite schools in Sindh being in bad shape, as someone who received his education from government schools, I would say this: the credit for my education goes to my parents, who, despite the poor quality of my primary educational institution, researched and visited many schools, both private and government ones and eventually found a school in a slum area of our city that they thought would be able to provide me with decent education. Owing to the attention that my parents were giving to my education and the hard work they were doing with me at home, I ended up receiving better education than my friends who were enrolled in supposedly better schools.
The blame for poor educational standards, therefore, doesn’t just go to mediocre government schools. It is the responsibility of all parents to push their children to put in the required effort to ensure that they receive high quality education. Parents should not just blame government schools for the abysmal state of education but must try and eliminate deprivations of society by investing their time in their children at home.
Ayaz Ahmed Laghari
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2014.
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