WHY ARE WE MAKING UP SCORES FOR STUDENTS TO PASS?

It's yet another end of the term, and whilst we do our best to clear our tables, mark our scripts and compile our results, we all know that injustices have been done, it may not look like it but, that's where it begins. To think that most of the time it's a collective effort between teachers, school heads, and even parents.

I cannot understand why parents would want to pay for a teacher to pass a child who's not supposed to pass, I'm trying to understand how that's supposed to help that child.

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Teachers who think that they'll have a better chance at showing off their "excellent" results if only they are able to pad up the scores to look great.

Headteachers and principals who call their subject teachers to their office to persuade and or coerce them to increase the student scores because the results are looking bad this term.

So instead of holding our learners and children to higher standards, we're asking them comfortable where they are, instead of letting the children see straight through their real Performance and allow themselves to make decisions to be and do better, we make them believe they don't have to put in do much to get what they want.

Are we still wondering why our educational structures are failing?

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