{UAH} Govt should buy schools on sale

Govt should buy schools on sale

The effects of Covid-19 pandemic continue to bite sectors of Ugandan economy. One of the sectors that seems to have been hit hard is education.

Whereas public schools have continued to pay teachers in the lock down, this has not been the case with private schools. In fact, majority of these schools declared themselves unable to clear salaries of their workers hardly a month in the first lock-down.

As the lock-down continued to bite even harder, private schools started crying out for government rescue regarding accumulated loans they previously had with financial institutions.

As expected, the public started seeing newspaper adverts of private primary, nursery and secondary schools being put up for sale.

What has been heart-breaking, though, in this chaotic situation is that of late some adverts have gone beyond advertising school property like buildings or land and seem to be busy displaying everything they owned for sale, including the number
of children the school owns without the consent of their parents as major stakeholders! This is a moral disaster.

The government should consider purchasing private schools under sale to turn them into public schools. This would help save money compared to the apparent plan to construct new secondary schools across the country.

Before any private school is sold, owners should present a clear plan of how teaching and non teaching staff will be handled as well as the future plight of students. This is how the government can continue to honour the principle of social contract.

John Vianney Ahumuza,
Mukono.

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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