Oweyegha Afunaduula
I congratulate Uganda teachers who have soldiered on despite having been devalued over the past few decades through discrimination in remuneration, housing and psychological torture, all of which are affecting the quality of education and the products from our schools and universities.
I empathize with teachers because I am one of them even beyond retirement.
In 1970 I taught at Namulanda Primary School in present day Luika District. Between 1983 and 1990.
I taught at Jinja Senior Secondary School in Busoga and at various schools in Kenya.
Between 1991 and 2009 I taught at Makerere University and at Islamic University In Uganda.
Even after retirement I briefly taught at Busoga University.
I love teaching so much that even today I still teach by other means. However, I abhor the current and ongoing apartheid-like management of education in Uganda, whereby there is discrimination between natural science teachers and other teachers in the arts and social sciences, and between the children of the rich and the children of the poor.
When I was a student at Mwiri, discrimination between children of the rich and the poor was unthought of. There was even no discrimination between teachers. The same was true even when I was a university teacher.
As a long-term teacher and one of Uganda Senior Citizens who struggled to see my children through school and university, when there was no discrimination between teachers and between students, and is seeing my children push their children through school when apartheid-like management of education is the rule rather than the exception, and the quality of education leaves a lot to be desired, I cannot resist asking: What have Uganda teachers celebrated on the World Teachers Day?
For God and My Country
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