As the traditional merry making period following release of 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results rages on, a Lugazi primary school teacher says he does not regret having taken school fees loans to enhance his poor salary, for his son.
14-year-old Maurice Anderson Kwima up to last year, a learner of Kana Primary School, scooped aggregate 4, which sent his dad, Alex Kafuko, a teacher at St. Theresa Namagunga Boarding Primary School, reeling with joy especially because his son has done him proud to justify the loans he has been taking for his school fees.
Kafuko says he pays school fees to five children and his classroom teacher salary cannot push them on, more especially in good schools which can make them prosper in the same way as those he teaches in his current school.
“Being a teacher is not something simple, we always teach children in first schools in which we cannot enroll our children. It calls for courage to do anything possible and ensure that your children too can have the best education in their life,” he said adding, he had no option but to go for school fees loans.
When asked about his dream career, Kwima said in spite of the fact that his father is working hard to make him have quality education, he wishes to become a flight engineer which will help him transform his earnings more than his dad.
He attributes his thumb up success to all-round discipline at school and at home, commitment on the part of his teachers, and exhibiting maximum fear for the Lord.
He is however thankful to his dad for the unwavering efforts to ensure that tuition requirements are all the time available to ensure his studies are not interfered with.
Kafuko encourages fellow teachers not to despair because of their meagre salaries, but to bend to demands of society and exploit all avenues of providing to their children what they provide to other people’s children.
He is thankful to the headmaster of Kana Primary School for being accommodative despite his late school fees payments, and listening to his pleas to give him an extra time within which to settle school requirements.
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