Masaka school closed over poor learning environment

Masaka. Pupils of Kaddugala Muslim Primary School in Masaka District will have to wait a little longer to begin their second term after the authorities closed the school over bad learning environment.
A team of district officials led by Ms Betty Namagembe Kizito, the district education officer, while on an impromptu inspection last week, shut down the school and sent the pupils home until further notice.
Although some teachers had joined their colleagues countrywide in the ongoing strike over pay rise, a few who had turned-up, authorities said, were not fit to run the school.
“There is no teaching here, our observation is that everything is a total mess and besides being very few to teach pupils, these teachers are just pretending,” Ms Kizito said as she pointed at some grave grammatical errors carried on a chalkboard of Primary Six class.
On asking the pupils, they said the notes had been written by their teacher.
“These are the principle tools of any competent teacher to coordinate his/her lessons. Surprisingly, one of the teachers showed us a forged lesson plan, which he claims to use in two classes and in different subjects,” Ms Kizito added.
Besides, the sanitation of the school was also in a terrible state. Some of the pupils were found loitering around the school compound with nobody attending to them.
The head teacher was not available at the school, but Ms Catherine Babirye, a Primary Six class teacher, said the mistakes which were in the notes on the chalkboard had been created by the pupils.
On lesson plans, she argued that all of them are experienced teachers and can ably work without them.
“The authorities should allow the school to continue operating and give management an opportunity to improve the sanitation facilities,” she said.
However, the authorities objected to this and closed the school.

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