By TALLA AGHAA CHRISTOPHER
The rate at which schools in Kumba, chief town of Meme Division, South West Region are busy organising holiday classes, gives an indication that there just maybe an effective back- to-school for the 2019/ 2020 academic year.
Most schools in Kumba that have remained closed for almost two years and their campuses transformed to mini forests, The SUN recently witnessed that the schools are now effectively holding holiday classes.
A parent who pleaded not to be named, hinted that, she has registered all her five children in the various holiday classes in Kumba. She narrated that it’s high time for children to go to school this coming academic year, reasons why she is using this holiday classes for her children to refresh their academic loss memories so that they are better prepared for school resumption.
“My children have been down for close to two years with their main activities being eating and sleeping”, a parent, in tears, told The SUN. He disclosed that his two children are very happy going for holiday classes. He said the manner in which holiday classes is intense in Kumba, there’s no doubt that back- to- school will be for real this coming academic year.
An organizer of one holiday classes we talked to disclosed that the school can boast of above 100 pupils and students. He said it’s really regrettable that most of the children have forgotten the basics of some subjects. He remained confident that most of the children will register for the coming school year in their institution.
Most parents we spoke to, showered praises to all those who have been campaigning for effective back- to- school. He cited the case of incarcerated Mancho Bibixy and Ngalim Felix who are campaigning from prison , the New English Language Publishers’ Association, CENPA, the Women Task Force who are equally giving reasons why schools must re-open come September 2019 and many other rights campaigners.
It should be recalled most schools in the North West and South West have remained shut down since 2016 as a result of the Anglophone crisis.