Children’s education is a marathon, by Francis Ewherido

A person of excavation reached retired to me recently. He needed assistance to pay his children’s schoolhouse fees. He is not alone. Earlier successful the week, I work a quality study that “some parents successful Enugu metropolis person expressed interest implicit what they described arsenic `unbearable’ summation successful tuition fees and levies charged by astir backstage and faith-based schools successful the state.” It’s not lone successful Enugu. It is allover Nigeria. Many parents are groaning, moving from pillar to post, processing precocious humor unit and having sleepless nights due to the fact that of schools fees.

Many Nigerians are going done chiefly economic-inflicted pains, nary doubt, but this schoolhouse fees induced pains are self-inflicted. I person a elemental question? Are you nether work to support your children successful those schools? Why not alteration their schools and enactment them successful schools you tin spend and person your bid of mind? From the beginning, 1 of the large factors for deciding which schoolhouse to enactment my children is what I tin spend successful the worst lawsuit scenario, not my existent fiscal status. This is due to the fact that your children’s acquisition is simply a marathon, not a sprint. I started successful 2001. I americium inactive successful it.

Back to my speech with my friend. I sat him down asked him applicable questions and told him the bitter truth. He’s unemployed close present and what the woman earns is hardly capable for the household monthly upkeep. “My friend, you don’t commencement what you cannot sustain. Even if you do, retrace your steps commencement connected the close lane. You person nary concern keeping your children successful backstage schools. Change them to a government-owned schoolhouse adjacent your location truthful that you don’t person to walk wealth connected transport to instrumentality them to and fro school.

If determination is nary authorities schoolhouse adjacent you, look for a bully authorities schoolhouse astir and enactment them there. Your woman is simply a teacher who teaches different people’s children for a living. You taught antecedently earlier you became unemployed. When your children get backmost from school, some of you should instrumentality turns to thatch them without saturating them due to the fact that children request immoderate clip disconnected from studies. He near without getting a kobo from me, but thanked maine for teaching him immoderate invaluable beingness lessons which beryllium signifier the ground for our treatment today.

One, separate betwixt luxury and necessities. Some radical astir you volition enactment you wherever the enactment is simply a necessity, but you scarcely get enactment if radical see your petition a luxury. Luxuries are expected to beryllium self-funded. Sending children to a backstage schoolhouse anyplace successful the satellite is simply a luxury. Before you commencement it guarantee you person capable funds successful spot oregon you are definite of wherever the funds volition travel from.

My friends and contemporaries sent their children abroad. One of my children wanted to survey abroad. He brandished a assistance earlier me. I told him that I don’t privation to commencement what I was not definite I could decorativeness without stressing myself unduly. Moreover, his siblings person to get a akin treatment. It’s level playing tract successful my household. I saw the tremendous unit immoderate of the radical who sent their children overseas went through. I didn’t privation to enactment myself nether specified pressure. Some were borrowing, moving from pillar to post. One adjacent went astir scamming radical and denying concern partners their stock of the proceeds. He ruined relationships. 

Moreover, I didn’t similar what I saw abroad, particularly successful London. Some of these children person derailed. I saw cause addicts and deviants. We are present successful an epoch wherever we are nary longer allowed to speech astir immoderate of these their choices. Some dropped retired of schoolhouse due to the fact that their parents could not header with their fees and upkeep oregon they dropped retired of schoolhouse but continued deceiving and collecting wealth from their parents. Someone precise adjacent to maine asked the friend’s lad the assemblage helium was attending. He told her, University of Reading. From the mode helium pronounced “Reading,” she knew helium was lying. When she got backmost to...