Fiji Sun

Education system

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Navua It’s strange to see our school system not per-

Ravneel Sharma ,

forming to expectatio­n as the minister is emphasisin­g since taking the portfolio. The major break down is the primary level where students are not taught the basics and they face a lot of problems when they enter secondary schools. Majority of these students are weak in reading and speaking English and therefore not able to perform in other subjects. The school heads at primary level needs to allow parents to actively involve themselves for the better education of their child. They must monitor and guide them towards ‘making education excellence in reality’. It is impossible to entirely depend on teachers to develop students holistical­ly because parents play a vital role in shaping today’s youths. They must teach their children spiritual and moral values. However students at schools nowadays don’t pay much respect to teachers neither “Talatala’s” and it is seen that this students easily involve themselves into wrongful acts and criminal activities. Once apprehende­d for such activities then it’s no use parents crying because the milk has already spilt.

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