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Why the poor stand no chance in the education system

“The commercialization of courses at university level with the inclusion of the parallel programme will soon make luxurious courses such as medicine, law and engineering a preserve of the affluent in the society.”


Gone are the days when education brought uniformity amongst members of a society irrespective of their social status. Nowadays the bourgeoisies are in control of the education system building private primary schools which drill children through their cram to pass technique which has been crafted and proved effective over the years thus ensuring children of the haves in the society pass with flying colours and join the limited national high schools and best county schools in their numbers.

Those who will not have the opportunity to join national schools and county schools due to their below par performance will head to private high schools for advanced drilling to justify the capita investment of their parents. Here spoon-feeding is the order of the day considering the favorable teacher-student ratio mostly 1:25 at most. Making them record business attractive mean scores such as 399.9999 in primary level and 10.999 in secondary level to boost the student enrollment numbers the following year.

 

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