Zim schooling now a big, painful joke

IT hardly rains, but pours for Zimbabweans, the majority of whom are parents with schoolgoing children.

For the past many years, Zimbabwe’s education sector has been nothing, but agony for parents and their children who have been at the receiving end of poor and inconsistent policies of a government that seems no longer interested in whether the country’s education goes to the dogs or not.

As schools opened yesterday for the third term, teachers gave notice of a go-slow to protest over the same old story of incapacitation, meaning that for the umpteenth term, children will bank on their own initiative, the grace of God, the gods and ancestors to pass their examinations.

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