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Relaxation time is done, the holidays were a wonderful time when the students just had to be home with their loving parents. This period is over as the schools are opening one after another and slowly the students in the secondary schools stroll in while the primary school pupils enter the school gates in large groups. The students are back to their second homes with teachers acting as their parents and with different rules from their parents, but the same rules they broke when they decided to strike last term. The shortest school term and the busiest time for most of the students begins. The candidates are busy everywhere. Form four students have just two months to prepare before they begin their major exam. The class eight pupils have three months to prepare. The students are very anxious as they resume school after such a hard time at the end of their last term.
The question is, will those who began the strikes be accepted back into the system? It is still early to conclude anything because over the last weeks of the just ended holidays the court cases for the students seem to have disappeared. What was the final conclusion by the government? Did its' cancellation of the mock exams and the holiday tuition in all the schools solve the crisis? Does the government really believe that these two issues were the major causes of the strikes? For many parents the hope is that all will go well. Even as the schools resume, more problems are inevitable. The teachers want a raise in their salaries and will not wait for more promises. However with all this, the students are showing hopeful faces believing that this term will be better than the one before.
Third term is usually the most serious time for all the students. While the students resume school, those who were part of the strikes have to join new schools so that they can continue learning. The students have to work to do their best and catch up with their studies from where they left when they decided to walk out of school three weeks early. They had not done their examinations. Where do they pick up from now? Do they start by taking last term exams?
The strikes are not forgotten and so are the big damages caused during that time.
The problems facing the parents are that they are being asked to pay for all of the damages so that school can continue as usual. Given that many of the parents never expected their children to be that destructive, they pay for the destroyed property hoping that their children will not mis-behave again. For the students who will not be accepted back into the schools because of what happened, it is a dilemma. Will they be accepted in other schools? Or will they have to repeat the whole of this academic year when they join new schools next year? What will the parents do for now?
The holidays may be over but school is now harder than ever for everyone. The teachers are not sure how long they will teach before they strike to demand a raise. Time for National exams is around the corner and serious preparations are required. Therefore may be this will be a reason for the administrations to sober up and consider these issues with lots of seriousness. The government on the other hand appears to have other things to deal with other than education matters. It is just putting this issue of schools by the side. The question is, how important is education for our younger generation? We have to give it time because time heals, hoping that it will all turn out alright. Examinations will be done as the rest of the students graduate to their next classes.
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